February 1993 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Disgrace | Reviews | Where We Are Now | Foreign Parts | Fiction | Biography Disgrace Francis Wheen Mystery of Gargantua’s Top Secret Powder Puff The Unknown Maxwell By Nicholas Davies LR Colin Wilson The Problem of Boredom in America The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer By Brian Masters LR Reviews George Stern No Worse Than Lloyds A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around The World By John Ring Adams and Douglas Frantz Inquiry Into The Supervision of BCCI By Bingham Report LR Where We Are Now Matt Seaton Watch the Writers Culture and Imperialism By Edward W Said LR Foreign Parts Toby Litt Runaway Train Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War By Slavenka Drakulić LR Fiction Robert Yates A Woman and Four Men The Blindfold By Siri Hustvedt Love Your Enemies By Nicola Barker LR Biography Katherine Frank Splendid – but What About that Husband? Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories By Jenny Uglow
Francis Wheen Mystery of Gargantua’s Top Secret Powder Puff The Unknown Maxwell By Nicholas Davies LR
George Stern No Worse Than Lloyds A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around The World By John Ring Adams and Douglas Frantz Inquiry Into The Supervision of BCCI By Bingham Report LR
Robert Yates A Woman and Four Men The Blindfold By Siri Hustvedt Love Your Enemies By Nicola Barker LR
Katherine Frank Splendid – but What About that Husband? Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories By Jenny Uglow
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