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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Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art.
@StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at.
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Stephen Smith: Art of Rebellion - Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
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‘I have fond memories of discussing Lorca and the state of Andalusian theatre with Antonio Banderas as Lauren Bacall sat on the dressing-room couch.’
@henryhitchings on Simon Russell Beale.
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Henry Hitchings: The Play’s the Thing - A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories by Simon Russell Beale
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Fredric Jameson.
Here, from 1983, is Terry Eagleton’s review of The Political Unconscious.
Terry Eagleton - Supermarket of the Mind
Terry Eagleton: Supermarket of the Mind - The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
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