February 1983 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: History | Historical Biography | History | Reviewers Reviewed | Interview | Biography | Film | Fiction History Colin MacCabe Illusory Independence The Discourse of Modernism By Timothy J Reiss LR Historical Biography Antony Beevor Spain’s Forgotten Years In Hiding – The Life of Manuel Cortes By Ronald Fraser History Mary Clive Congenial Company Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless By Margaret Wade Labarge Reviewers Reviewed Kathy O'Shaughnessy Absolootely The Sloane Ranger Handbook By Ann Barr, Peter York LR Interview Alastair Morgan Alastair Morgan talks to Anthony Burgess Biography Richard Williams A True Composer Mingus, A Critical Biography By Brian Priestley Film Mihir Bose A Personal View Gandhi By Richard Attenborough LR Fiction Lucretia Stewart Killing Suspense People Who Knock On The Door By Patricia Highsmith LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery
Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
Fiona Sampson - Changed in a Minute
Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: