July 1990 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Fiction | General | Heaven and Hell | New York Letter | Belles Lettres Fiction Lucasta Miller So What? Bluette By Ronald Frame LR General Richard Cavendish Tale of the Underdogs The Celtic Empire By Peter Berresford Ellis LR Anne Clark Amor Spitting Images Renaissance Portraits By Lorne Campbell LR Heaven and Hell Jeremy Reed Heroic Marquis The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade By Marquis de Sade (Translated by Margaret Crosland) LR Brendan King Upon the Buttock of the Beast Antichrist in Seventeenth Century England By Christopher Hill LR Antonia Nashe Disgusting but Nice Machiavelli in Hell By Sebastian de Grazia LR New York Letter Jim Holt Holt’s Confessions of a New York Winedrinker LR Belles Lettres Barbara Howell Man and Superman Some Freaks By David Mamet LR
Jeremy Reed Heroic Marquis The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade By Marquis de Sade (Translated by Margaret Crosland) LR
Brendan King Upon the Buttock of the Beast Antichrist in Seventeenth Century England By Christopher Hill LR
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