July 1988 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Journalism | Oppression | Impulses | General | Biography Journalism Karen Krizanovich The Tynan of Rock Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung By Lester Bangs (edited by Greil Marcus) LR Oppression Francis Wheen Off With Their Heads The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy By Tom Nairn LR Anthony Blond Off With Their Coronets Eton Voices – Interviews By Danny Danziger LR Impulses Andrew Barrow How to Be a Genius The School of Genius By Anthony Storr LR General Pamela Vandyke Price Where Does One Stop? The Demon Drink By Jancis Robinson LR Pamela Vandyke Price Where Does One Stop? The Demon Drink By Jancis Robinson Biography Richard Dorment A Monster Who Used Women Picasso: Creator and Destroyer By Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington LR
Karen Krizanovich The Tynan of Rock Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung By Lester Bangs (edited by Greil Marcus) LR
Richard Dorment A Monster Who Used Women Picasso: Creator and Destroyer By Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington LR
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