August 1987 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Short Stories | Politics | Miscellaneous Short Stories Hilary Mantel Diet of Vodka and Asparagus Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags By Shena Mackay LR Paul Theroux Inflaming the Chinese One Half of the Sky: A Selection from Contemporary Women Writers of China By R A Roberts and Angela Knox (trans) LR Politics Sebastian Faulks Chippy Fellow Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher By Edward Pearce LR Miscellaneous John Whiston Metamorphoses Maus: A Survivor’s Tale By Art Spiegelman The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: The Lost History of Europe’s Animal Trials By E P Evans LR
Paul Theroux Inflaming the Chinese One Half of the Sky: A Selection from Contemporary Women Writers of China By R A Roberts and Angela Knox (trans) LR
John Whiston Metamorphoses Maus: A Survivor’s Tale By Art Spiegelman The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: The Lost History of Europe’s Animal Trials By E P Evans LR
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