September 1990 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | South African Fiction | Women Oppressed | Travel | New York Letter Biography Bryan Appleyard A Superb Biography Which Redefines the Form and Should Silence Us All Dickens By Peter Ackroyd Nick Hornby Over-Refined Funk Living in America - The Soul Saga of James Brown By Cynthia Rose LR South African Fiction Anne Smith Living in a State of Shame Age of Iron By J M Coetzee Women Oppressed Laura Cumming What Ills from Beauty Spring The Beauty Myth By Naomi Wolf Christopher Wood Freud’s Fallacies Freud on Women: A Reader By Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (ed) LR Travel Paul Theroux Trusting Well-Wisher India: A Million Mutinies Now By V S Naipaul LR New York Letter Jim Holt Jim Holt Gives Us His Measure LR
Bryan Appleyard A Superb Biography Which Redefines the Form and Should Silence Us All Dickens By Peter Ackroyd
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