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January 1986 Issue
- 27 Articles
Waiting for His Excellency (story)
M.M. Carlin
, pp. 3-4
Poem
Herbert Lomas
, p. 5
Winds of Warning
James Rusbridger
, pp. 6-12
Enigma & Pearl Harbor
Poem
Adrian Blackledge
, p. 13
Column
"M."
, pp. 14-15
Poem
Mary Sullivan
, pp. 16-18
Men & Ideas
The War against the Whigs
George Watson
, pp. 19-25
Butterfield Reconsidered
Poem
Michael Foley
, p. 26
Poem
Jean Hanff Korelitz
, p. 27
Notes & Topics
What Paper Do You Read?
Edward Pearce
, pp. 28-29
Magic in Islington
Roy Kerridge
, pp. 30-32
Paris Notebook
Jean-Francois Revel
, pp. 33-36
Poem
Simon Curtis
, p. 37
Special Book Section: Literature & Criticism
[+]
Derision's Master
(Review)
Christopher Ricks
, pp. 38-40
Alexander Pope: A Life, by Maynard Mack
Alexander Pope: A Life
by Maynard Mack
[+]
Gods & Lovers
(2 Reviews)
Roger Lewis
, pp. 41-45
The Kingdom of the Wicked, by Anthony Burgess
The Kingdom of the Wicked
by Anthony Burgess
Flame Into Being
by Anthony Burgess
Disraeli's Invention
Charles Mosley
, pp. 46-52
[+]
Machine-Gun Morals & Lean Tales
(4 Reviews)
D.J. Taylor
, pp. 53-54
Beau Bumbo, by Andrew Sinclair
Beau Bumbo
by Andrew Sinclair
Happy Families
by Nigel Gray
Twenty Stories
by Francis King
Lean Tales
by James Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray
[+]
Conceit & Concern
(13 Reviews)
John Mole
, pp. 55-61
New and Collected Poems, 1934-84, by Roy Fuller
New and Collected Poems, 1934-84
by Roy Fuller
Collected Poems
by Norman MacCaig
Selected Poems, 1963-1980
by Michael Longley
Life by Drowning
by Jeni Couzyn
The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets
by Jeni Couzyn
The Fiction-Makers
by Anne Stevenson
Black Grate Poems
by Anne Stevenson
The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems
by Richard Murphy
Ukulele Music
by Peter Reading
A Voyage Round the Moon
by John Gohorry
Jouissance
by William Scammell
The Interrupted Dream
by Tim Dooley
Geometry
by Alan Dewar
[+]
Books Encountered
(19 Reviews)
R.M.
, p. 62
The Price of the Ticket, by James Baldwin
The Price of the Ticket
by James Baldwin
The Grain of the Voice
by Roland Barthes
On Signs
by Marshall Blonsky
The Everyman History of English Literature
by Peter Conrad
Fictions in Autobiography
by Paul John Eakin
From Fact to Fiction
by Shelley F. Fishkin
On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983
by Gunter Grass
Messages
by Naomi Lewis
Strindberg
by Michael Leverson Meyer
Realism and Reality
by Meenakshi Mukherjee
The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Rajeev S. Patke
Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction
by Rubin Rabinovitz
The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James
by John Carlos Rowe
David Low
by Colin Seymour-Ure and Jim Schoff
Queneau's Fiction
by Christopher Shorley
The Everyman Companion to the Theatre
by Peter Thomson and Gamini Salgado
Sensational Designs
by Jane Tompkins
Orwell: The War Commentaries
by W.J. West and George Orwell
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet
by Paul Zweig
Poem
Raymond Tong
, p. 63
East & West
Waugh & Peace Revisited
Teresa Cherfas
, pp. 64-67
Poem
Stephen Knight
, p. 68
Points of the Compass
The Ideological Pilgrims
Paul Hollander
, pp. 69-70
Authors & Critics
A Dictionary?
Sidney Hook
, pp. 71-74
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, pp. 75-78
Life & Letters
, p. 79
Authors
, pp. 80-82
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