November 1985 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Interview | Politics | Biography | Fiction | Television | Interview | Poetry Biography Charles Allen Playboy Prince The Last Maharaja: A Biography of Sawai Man Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur By Quentin Crewe LR Interview Germaine Greer Germaine Greer Talks to Primo Levi Politics Carol Thatcher Discretion, C’est Tout Five at 10: Prime Ministers’ Consorts since 1957 By Diana Farr Biography Quentin Crewe Missing Links The Letters of Ann Fleming By Mark Amory (Ed) Fiction Ian Thomson Life in the Trees Mr. Palomar By Italo Calvino Television Stephen Fry With Sensitivity Interview Paul Ableman Interview: Stephen Spender LR Poetry David Sexton Agnostic Faith Wallace Stevens: The Critical Heritage By Charles Doyle The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study By Rajeev S Patke
Charles Allen Playboy Prince The Last Maharaja: A Biography of Sawai Man Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur By Quentin Crewe LR
David Sexton Agnostic Faith Wallace Stevens: The Critical Heritage By Charles Doyle The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study By Rajeev S Patke
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