Vol. 13 No. 12 · 27 June 1991

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Vol. 13 No. 12 · 27 June 1991

Andrew Forge

Nothing if not critical by Robert Hughes
Frank Auerbach by Robert Hughes
Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting by Ronald Paulson

Andrew Forge

Some words on the death of Lawrence Gowing

Letters

Malcolm Deas, Rupert Wilkinson, K. Sinclair-Loutit, Thomas Scott, Rodney Pybus, Michael Pye

Peter Campbell

Dance till the stars come down by Frances Spalding
Keith Vaughan by Malcolm Yorke

George Melly

Beverley Nichols by Bryan Connon

Neal Ascherson

A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright

Paul Foot

Kill the messenger by Bernard Ingham

Philip Purser

A Social History of British Broadcasting. Vol. I: 1922-29, Serving the Nation by Paddy Scannell and David Cardiff
The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. III: Serious Pursuits, Communication and Education 
The British Press and Broadcasting since 1945 by Colin Seymour-Ure

Basil Davidson

The Repatriations from Austria: The Report of an Inquiry by Anthony Cowgill, Lord Brimelow and Christopher Booker
Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945 by Samuel Newland
Eyewitnesses at Nuremberg by Hilary Gaskin

Alistair Elliot

Poem: ‘A Family Wireless’

Tam Dalyell

A Green History of the World by Clive Ponting

Jerry Fodor

The Problem of Consciousness by Colin McGinn

Dinah Birch

The Desire of My Eyes: A Life of John Ruskin by Wolfgang Kemp, translated by Jan Van Huerck

D.J. Enright

Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient by John Wiltshire

Douglas Johnson

The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762 by Maurice Cranston
Writings of Rousseau. Vol I: Rousseau: Judge of Jean-Jacques. Dialogues. translated by Judith Bush, edited and translated by Christopher Kelly and Roger Masters

Carey Harrison

Curtain by Michael Korda

Richard Cobb

My France: Politics, Culture, Myth by Eugen Weber

Anthony Quinn

The Elephant by Richard Rayner
The Misfortunes of Nigel by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Famous for the creatures by Andrew Motion
Double Lives by Stephen Wall

Stephen Wall

Regeneration by Pat Barker
Rose Reason by Mary Flanagan
Rose by Rose Boyt

Allen Curnow

Poem: ‘An Unclosed Door’

Jenny Turner

The Burn by James Kelman
Blood by Janice Galloway

Stephen Sackur

Ariel Diary: In Ariel

Rosalind Mitchison

The Hanging Tree by Allan Massie
Tiberius: The Memoirs of the Emperor by Allan Massie
The Gillyflors by Catherine Cookson

T.J. Binyon

Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis

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