February 1984 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General Reviews | Thoughtcrimes | General Reviews | Poetry General Reviews Max Egremont Buccaneering Brilliance F E Smith, First Earl Of Birkenhead By John Campbell LR Antony Beevor Fortress Koestler Stranger on the Square By Arthur and Cynthia Koestler LR Carol Rumens Larkin About Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 By Philip Larkin LR Frances Partridge The Man Himself My Last Breath: The Autobiography of Luis Buñuel By Luis Buñuel (Translated by Abigail Israel LR Thoughtcrimes William Boyd A Firing Squad LR General Reviews Antony Beevor Fortress Koestler Stranger on the Square By Arthur & Cynthia Koestler (introduction by Harold Harris) LR Poetry Grey Gowrie The Globe Entire Children in Exile By James Fenton The Memory of War and Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1983 By James Fenton LR
Frances Partridge The Man Himself My Last Breath: The Autobiography of Luis Buñuel By Luis Buñuel (Translated by Abigail Israel LR
Antony Beevor Fortress Koestler Stranger on the Square By Arthur & Cynthia Koestler (introduction by Harold Harris) LR
Grey Gowrie The Globe Entire Children in Exile By James Fenton The Memory of War and Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1983 By James Fenton LR
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Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art.
@StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at.
Stephen Smith - Art of Rebellion
Stephen Smith: Art of Rebellion - Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
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‘I have fond memories of discussing Lorca and the state of Andalusian theatre with Antonio Banderas as Lauren Bacall sat on the dressing-room couch.’
@henryhitchings on Simon Russell Beale.
Henry Hitchings - The Play’s the Thing
Henry Hitchings: The Play’s the Thing - A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories by Simon Russell Beale
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Fredric Jameson.
Here, from 1983, is Terry Eagleton’s review of The Political Unconscious.
Terry Eagleton - Supermarket of the Mind
Terry Eagleton: Supermarket of the Mind - The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
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