December 1983 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General Reviews | Culture | Comedy | Journal of a Literary Contender | Interview | Fiction General Reviews Gillian Greenwood Dead-Pan Passion Out of This Century By Peggy Guggenheim LR Culture Alexandra Shulman Networking Networks By Tim Heald A Girl's Guide to the English Public Schoolboy By Rebecca Irvine LR Comedy Neil Berry Spirited Misanthropy Every Day Drinking By Kingsley Amis The Official Guide to Wine Snobbery By Leonard S Bernstein LR Journal of a Literary Contender Cosmo Landesman Make or Break LR A N Wilson Stars & Saints LR Interview John Haffenden John Haffenden talks to Emma Tennant LR Fiction Nicholas Rankin Patriarchal Patterns Don Bueno By Zulfikar Ghose LR
Alexandra Shulman Networking Networks By Tim Heald A Girl's Guide to the English Public Schoolboy By Rebecca Irvine LR
Neil Berry Spirited Misanthropy Every Day Drinking By Kingsley Amis The Official Guide to Wine Snobbery By Leonard S Bernstein 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: