May 1988 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Literary Criticism | Biography | Women | Short Stories | General | Sex | Politics Literary Criticism Peter Levi Something Useful in the New Shakespeare The Oxford Shakespeare By Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (edd) LR Paul Richardson Man of Sixty-Two Words The Art of the Novel By Milan Kundera LR Biography Jed Brendon-Tullett The Fraud of Freud Freud: A Life for our Time By Peter Gay Women David Sexton Not a Book but a Commodity Rock Star By Jackie Collins LR Short Stories Hilary Mantel Too Much Tallent Time with Children: Stories By Elizabeth Tallent LR General Quentin Crewe Birds Drop from the Skies A Desert Dies By Michael Asher LR Sex David Profumo Down on Hite Women and Love: The New Hite Report – A Cultural Revolution in Progress By Shere Hite LR Politics Paul Foot Burke and Ayer Strike Again Thomas Paine By A J Ayer
Peter Levi Something Useful in the New Shakespeare The Oxford Shakespeare By Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (edd) LR
David Profumo Down on Hite Women and Love: The New Hite Report – A Cultural Revolution in Progress By Shere Hite LR
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'Fiona Shaw, in Jonathan Miller’s production, is the best shrew I have seen. She starts off in a mustard yellow dress with a mustard sharp tongue.'
From the archive, Kate Kellaway on a 1988 production of 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
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'He was not a revolutionary at all of course. He was only marginally a socialist. His tradition was rooted in the Liberal aristocracy, and his politics were entirely bounded by Parliament.'
From the archive, Paul Foot on Tony Benn's diaries.
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