CONTENTS
The Press Quentin Crewe Richard Ingrams Peter Hillmore
Biography Michael Hastings Paul Hamilton
Humour John Wells Richard Curtis
Beaverbrook Remembered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Peter Simple's Biography.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. 6 Libel and Fleet Street Lies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Peter Ackroyd's T S Eliot.... . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Art of Biography.. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Karl Kraus: Viennese Wit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . 12 The Young Ones... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Art Patrick O'Connor Christopher Butler
General Francis Wheen Humphrey Carpenter Julie Burchill Colin Smith Godfrey Hodgson
Georges Le Pape: Fashion or Art?... . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . 15 Modernist Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Peter York's Modernism..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Children's Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Playboy Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. _. . .. . . . . . 21 Travels in Baluchistan.... .. . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . 23 Shawcross's Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . .". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Ireland Carlo Gebler Jonathan Cavendish
Irish Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Somerville and Ross... . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 27
Reviewers Reviewed
Susan Marling
Neil Kinnock and David Owen.... . . . . . . ... . . . . . . ... . . . 29
Letters Fleet Street Scrivener
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Reporting on the Observer. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 31
AN Wilson
Lamenting the Hayward Gallery . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. .. .. 32
Interview John Haffenden
Theatre John Orr
Fiction Paul Ableman GeoffDyer
Mary Furness Emma Tennant
Angel a Carter..... .. ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sam Shepard's Fool For Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 39
John Updike. . . . . ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Julian Barnes, Howard Jacobson, William Kennedy . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . 41 Nicholas Coleridge ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Martin Amis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Poems Gerard Benson James Berry Joan Downar Elizabeth Jennings Lotte Kramer
A Chess Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Ordeal of Change .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Outrage. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Rome with your Seven Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 The Hour . ... . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 8
Poetry Interview David Sexton
Paul Binding talks to Blake Morrison...... . ... . . . . . . . 46 Christopher Ricks' The Force of Poetry..... .. . . . . . . . 45
Pick of the Paperbacks ............. ...... .. ..... ... .... .. ........ ........ .... .. .... .. . 43
Crossword & Competition ......................................................... 48
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