Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jeremy Bernstein
• John Butt
• John Lewis Gaddis
• Anthony Grafton
• Dan Jacobson
• Joanna Kavenna
• Stephen Knight
• Frank Lentricchia
• Patrick McGuinness
• Adewale Maja-Pearce
• Michael Mason
• Thomas Nagel
• Michael Rogin
• Lorna Scott Fox
• David Sylvester

Contents

• David Sylvester

  • Jackson Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel
  • Interpreting Pollock by Jeremy Lewison

• Letters
  Verity Hawkes, Richard Beeston, John Sutherland, Deborah McVea, Jeremy Treglown, John Sturrock, H.T. Dixon, Malcolm Jack, Arlene Blade, Brendan Simms, John Willett, Abla Mouhawi, Marilyn Bowering, Harvey Roy Greenberg, Stuart Hood

• Adewale Maja-Pearce
  Army Arrangement: Nigeria’s march away from democracy

• Stephen Knight
  Poem: ‘So Early in the Year’

• Dan Jacobson

  • King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Central Africa by Adam Hochschild

• John Lewis Gaddis

  • The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by Jonathan Schell

• Michael Rogin

  • The American Century by Harold Evans
  • The Time of Our Time by Norman Mailer

• Jeremy Bernstein
  Newton’s Rings: Stanley Kubrick

• Thomas Nagel

  • Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
  • The Pattern of Evolution by Niles Eldredge

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • The Collected Stories by Calvert Casey

• Frank Lentricchia
  Islas Malvinas

• John Butt

  • Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton

• Patrick McGuinness

  • The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 edited by Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford
  • The Firebox: Poetry from Britain and Ireland after 1945 edited by Sean O’Brien

• Joanna Kavenna

  • The Radical Twenties: Aspects of Writing, Politics and Culture by John Lucas

• Michael Mason

  • Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton

• Anthony Grafton
  Diary: Warburg