June 1994 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Literary biography | Politics Philosophy & Economics | Oppression | Belles Lettres | Fiction Literary biography Amanda Craig In a Perpetual State of Amorous Engagement Stendhal By Jonathan Keates LR Alan Taylor Debt was the Spur Balzac By Graham Robb LR Politics Philosophy & Economics Peter Jones With a Bit More Democracy We Might Hang Mr Howard Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought By Jennifer Tolbert Roberts Susan Strange He Has No Solution The World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View By J K Galbraith Oppression Michael Bloch They Must All Go Back to Potty Training Wotan, My Enemy: Can Britain Live with the Germans in the European Union? An Autobiographical Response By Leo Abse LR Belles Lettres Kate Kellaway Could Be Useful at Cocktail Parties A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays By David Mamet LR Frank McLynn Worth Investigation Travelling in Italy with Henry James By Fred Kaplan (ed) LR Fiction Cressida Connolly Watch Her Language Art and Lies By Jeanette Winterson LR
Peter Jones With a Bit More Democracy We Might Hang Mr Howard Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought By Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
Michael Bloch They Must All Go Back to Potty Training Wotan, My Enemy: Can Britain Live with the Germans in the European Union? An Autobiographical Response By Leo Abse LR
Kate Kellaway Could Be Useful at Cocktail Parties A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays By David Mamet LR
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