March 1987 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Fiction | Interview | General | Topography Fiction David Sexton Shooting More Than His Mouth Off The Counterlife By Philip Roth LR Hilary Mantel Conjuring Tricks Zeno Was Here By Jan Mark LR Interview Cressida Connolly Interview with Alice Munro General Paul Foot The Great Leap Backward Choose Freedom: The Future for Democratic Socialism By Roy Hattersley LR Topography Howard Jacobson How Matilda Lost Her Cherry The Fatal Shore By Robert Hughes LR
Paul Foot The Great Leap Backward Choose Freedom: The Future for Democratic Socialism By Roy Hattersley LR
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