April 1984 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Memoirs | General Reviews | Reviewers Reviewed | Interview | Warsaw Diary | Interview | Fiction Memoirs Sheila MacLeod Compassionate Odyssey Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions By Gloria Steinem A Nice Girl Like Me By Rosie Boycott General Reviews Geoffrey Wheatcroft Masterly Performance The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh By Donat Gallagher (ed) Adam Zamoyski Muddled Muse Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius By Karen Monson LR John Lahr Renegade Brilliance Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility By Germaine Greer Reviewers Reviewed Susan Marling Good As Golding The Paper Men By William Golding LR Interview John Haffenden Interview: David Lodge LR Warsaw Diary Lesley Chamberlain Warsaw Diary Interview A N Wilson Freedom of the Press? Fiction Paul Chipchase Virtuoso Replication Enderby's Dark Lady By Anthony Burgess LR
Sheila MacLeod Compassionate Odyssey Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions By Gloria Steinem A Nice Girl Like Me By Rosie Boycott
Geoffrey Wheatcroft Masterly Performance The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh By Donat Gallagher (ed)
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