How did we decide what Christ looked like?

From the LRB letters page: [ 1 June 2000 ] Alfred Jowett, Anthony Beck.

Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.

Other articles by this contributor:

Maximum Assistance from Good Cooking, Good Clothes, Good Drink · Auden’s Shakespeare

Complicated Detours · Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips

Here she is · Zadie Smith

‘Disgusting’ · Frank Kermode remembers William Empson

Writing about Shakespeare · Frank Kermode has his say

Point of View · Atonement by Ian McEwan

No Tricks · Raymond Carver

‘It’s the way people like us don’t talk’ · Andrew Motion’s Boyhood