September 1988 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Fiction I | Fiction | Fiction I | Biography | Poetry | Fiction I Fiction I Paul Theroux What the Hell is Going on? The Captain and the Enemy By Graham Greene Fiction Magnus Frater Lips Part like Split Plums King Ludd By Andrew Sinclair LR Rhoda Koenig Marriage à la Mode Difficulties with Girls By Kingsley Amis LR Fiction I Hilary Mantel Author as Father Bear The Lyre Of Orpheus By Robertson Davies Biography Colin Wilson Shy, But Not Cock-Shaw Bernard Shaw: The Search for Love, 1856–1898 By Michael Holroyd Matthew J Reisz A Trail of Sycophancy Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power By Derek WIlson LR Poetry Peter Levi Better Than Seamus Heaney Mornings in the Baltic By Adam Thorpe LR Fiction I Janet Barron The Squeak of a Frozen Pea The Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie LR
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