February 1985 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General | International | Russia | Fiction General Jasper Conran High and Low Chic McDowelll's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion By Colin McDowell LR Craig Raine Stylistic Prohibition The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse By Roger Lonsdale LR International Benazir Bhutto An Indian Dynasty The Nehrus and the Gandhis, an Indian Dynasty By Tariq Ali LR Russia A P Chekov (Translated by Igor Vinogradoff) A Sea: A Sailor’s Story LR Fiction Geoff Dyer Excellent Ephemera Firebird 4: New Writing from Britain and Ireland By Robin Robertson LR
Jasper Conran High and Low Chic McDowelll's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion By Colin McDowell LR
Craig Raine Stylistic Prohibition The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse By Roger Lonsdale LR
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