July 1984 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General Reviews | Theatre General Reviews Martin Walker Military Diplomacy Overlord By Max Hastings LR Jonathan Meades Filthy French Harraps Slang Dictionary English – French/French – English By Georgette A Marks and Charles B Johnson (Ed) Jane Pratt LR Theatre Antony Beevor Cutting Edge Federico Garcia Lorca By Reed Anderson LR
Jonathan Meades Filthy French Harraps Slang Dictionary English – French/French – English By Georgette A Marks and Charles B Johnson (Ed) Jane Pratt LR
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On the night of 5th July 1809, a group of soldiers kidnapped Pope Pius VII on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte. Munro Price looks at what happened next.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/bonaparte-meets-his-match
'She lived in a damp basement with her mother and sister, smoking roll-ups and talking to her parrot.'
Joanna Kavenna traces the life of the 'almost-forgotten poet' Charlotte Mew.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/she-hated-poetry-readings
'If, as James Wolcott once claimed, Roth was a miracle of modern medicine, he was also one of therapy’s notable failures.'
@leorobsonwriter on Philip Roth, that 'walking, wanking paradox'.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-great-american-novelist