January 1985 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General | Fleet Street | Fiction General Kingsley Amis Snobs & Stuffed Shirts Sayings of the Century By Nigel Rees Wordly Wise By James McDonald The State of the Language: English Observed By Philip Howard LR Christopher Hitchens Mother of Unions The Oxford Union: Playground of Power By David Walter Fleet Street Scrivener The Sunday Times LR Fiction Derek Mahon Rock ‘n’ Roll is Here to Stay Slow Learner: Early Stories By Thomas Pynchon LR
Kingsley Amis Snobs & Stuffed Shirts Sayings of the Century By Nigel Rees Wordly Wise By James McDonald The State of the Language: English Observed By Philip Howard LR
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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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