March 1984 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General Reviews | Music | Fiction | Poetry General Reviews Godfrey Hodgson The Hour is Late The Nuclear Delusion By George F Kennan LR Philip Knightly Parable of Power The Emperor By Richard Kapuscinski LR A L Rowse Liberal Illusionist J M Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920 By Richard Skidelsky LR Alan Jenkins Impassioned Attention Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism By John Updike LR Music Susan Scott-Parker The Real Whores of War LR Fiction Paul Ableman Hamlet Abandoned The Anatomy Lesson By Philip Roth LR Poetry George Szirtes Binding Wit Powers of Thirteen By John Hollander The Candy-Floss Tree By Norman Nicholson, Gerda Mayer, Frank Flynn LR
George Szirtes Binding Wit Powers of Thirteen By John Hollander The Candy-Floss Tree By Norman Nicholson, Gerda Mayer, Frank Flynn LR
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Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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