July 1987 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Literary Criticism | Short Stories | General | Biography Literary Criticism Frank Romany Heady Celebrations of Style Against Interpretation By Susan Sontag LR Short Stories John Gill Education in Aids The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis By Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White LR General Grub Smith He Was Black Once On Boxing By Joyce Carol Oates LR Biography John Stokes Dead Beats Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac By Gerald Nicosia The Beats: An Anthology of 'Beat' Writing By Park Honan (Ed) LR
John Gill Education in Aids The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis By Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White LR
John Stokes Dead Beats Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac By Gerald Nicosia The Beats: An Anthology of 'Beat' Writing By Park Honan (Ed) LR
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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.
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Rosa Lyster: Kiss of Death - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
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‘At times, Orbital feels almost like a long poem.’
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Sam Reynolds: Islands in the Sky - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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