October 1983 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General Reviews | Reviewers Reviewed General Reviews Christopher Hitchens Last, Best Hope The Making of the Second Cold War By Fred Halliday LR Antony Beevor Chilean Lament Victor: An Unfinished Song By Joan Jara LR Kingsley Amis Get it Right A Word in Your Ear By Philip Howard LR Christopher Hawtree Short Measure October By Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy LR Reviewers Reviewed Susan Marling Make Lunch Not War The Limits of Sex By Celia Haddon 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: