ARTS SPECIAL
36 Michael Snodin
Strawberry Hill revived
38 Exhibitions
The complete Bruegel
Martin Gayford
39 Cinema Dogman
Deborah Ross
40 Theatre
I’m Not Running;
Measure for Measure
Lloyd Evans
Radio Kate Chisholm
42 Mining art
The pit brow lasses
Laura Gascoigne
43 Television
Booker Prize; There She Goes
James Walton
44 Poster art Toulouse-Lautrec
Claudia Massie
45 Opera
Porgy and Bess; The Merry Widow
Richard Bratby
47 Music
The truth about Furtwängler
Norman Lebrecht
The listener
Cypress Hill: Elephants on Acid
Rod Liddle
48 Interview
Dominic West on #MeToo
and keeping his mouth shut
Melissa Kite
LIFE
53 High life Taki
Low life Jeremy Clarke
54 Anthony Howell
‘Auto-Analysis’: a poem
56 Real life Melissa Kite
Bridge Susanna Gross
57 Wine club Jonathan Ray
AND FINALLY...
50 Notes on ...
Davenports Magic
Mark Mason
58 Chess Raymond Keene
Competition Lucy Vickery
59 Crossword Mr Magoo
60 No sacred cows Toby Young
Battle for Britain
Michael Heath
61 Sport Roger Alton
Your problems solved
Mary Killen
62 Food Tanya Gold
Mind your language
Dot Wordsworth
LIFE
Roger Kimball, who writes
about Melania Trump’s
wardrobe on p10, is an
American art critic and social
commentator. He edits and
publishes The New Criterion
and Encounter Books.
George C. Herring is the
author of America’s Longest
War: The United States
and Vietnam, 1950-1975, soon
to appear in a sixth edition. He
reviews Max Hastings’s history
of the Vietnam war on p33.
Anne Margaret Daniel, the
editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
I’d Die For You and Other
Lost Stories, reviews Haruki
Murakami’s Fitzgerald-
influenced new novel on p31.
Lynn Barber is a journalist,
award-winning interviewer and
the author of An Education.
She describes on p20 how
she was recently fired.
Lucy Mangan writes about
the joys of Little Women on
p30. Her own latest book is
Bookworm: A Memoir of
Childhood Reading.
CONTRIBUTORS
I remember someone in the 1990s
asking what my rates were and
I said £1 a word, but I only said
it because Martin Amis did and
it sounded good
Lynn Barber, p
Curiously, toplessness seems
to have caused less offence to
Victorian sensibilities than trousers
Laura Gascoigne, p
Outrage is the refuge of mediocrity
Dominic West, p
Going for gold, p
Nothing to do with global warming, p
Should he pipe down?
p