Though Adrian Searle is correct to say that Jasper Johns’ Flag is not a painting of a flag, it is less of a flag than he suggests (Flagging up conundrum of a complicated painter, 20 September). Johns’ brilliant work, which raises many important questions about art, is no more a flag than Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows is the Wiltshire countryside. It is perhaps more helpful to think of representational paintings as being from things rather than of things.
David Ainley
Matlock, Derbyshire
• Amy Fleming’s article on lab-grown meat and fish (Is ‘Frankenfish’ the start of a food revolution?, G2, 21 September) illustrates once again the predictive power of Pohl and Kornbluth’s 1953 SF novel The Space Merchants. They called the non-animal meat plant “Chicken Little”. Their main prediction, of corporations ruling the world, becomes more accurate each year.
John Wilson
London
Related: Jonathan Franzen: 'The book that had the greatest influence on my writing? CS Lewis's Narnia'
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