The Spectator - October 20, 2018

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