December 1979 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General | Interview | Reviews | Fiction | Reviews General Julian Rathbone Gradgrind – Alive and Well? LR x Sue Nichterlein Letter from New York LR Interview Judy Dempsey An Interview with Norman Mailer Reviews Charles Palliser Roth’s Real Life The Ghost Writer By Philip Roth LR Fiction Guido Almansi Of Kin to the Beasts The Bloody Chamber By Angela Carter Reviews Bernard T Harrison The Thinking Class Education and the University By F R Leavis LR Bernard T. Harrison Nature Bent Durkheim: Essays on Morals and Education By W. S. Pickering (ed) (Translated by H. L. Sutcliffe) LR
Bernard T. Harrison Nature Bent Durkheim: Essays on Morals and Education By W. S. Pickering (ed) (Translated by H. L. Sutcliffe) LR
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