David F. McAllister (b. 92) is a writer and editor based in London.
Selected writing:
i. Essays
What Annie Ernaux owes to memory
On a Nobel prize winner
Picasso’s indefinable legacy
On legacies and bad behaviour
Our land
On the way things have always been
The measure of all things
On what counts
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ii. Reviews & criticism
Troll of the tropics
On Mário de Andrade
Reasons to linger
On Aidan Koch’s Spiral & Other Stories
Painting the Klan
On Tate Modern’s Philip Guston
Glasgow kisses
On Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo
Scots without Scotland
On Murray Pittock’s Scotland: The Global History
Francis Bacon looks at animals
On Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
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iii. Interviews
The BBC and CNN are very biased
Ai Weiwei
The imagination is a really generous space
Michael Rakowitz
Conservatives must avoid seeming obsessed with money
Maurice Saatchi
Work is just a flimsy excuse to meet people
Cornelia Parker
The biggest challenge was to make the audience feel their complicity
Richard Mosse
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