March 1996 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Low Life High Life | General | Film | Biography | Fiction Low Life High Life Julian Barnes Did Light Novels Finish the French Monarchy? The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France By Robert Darnton General Dennis Sewell What Conspiracy? The Killing of Robert F Kennedy By Dan E Moldea Film Kevin MacDonald The Full Horror of Ordinary People The World According to Mike Leigh By Michael Coveney LR Biography Laura Cumming Who Knows What Went On In That House? Djuna: The Life & Work of Djuna Barnes By Phillip Herring Fiction Amanda Craig All About India A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry LR
Julian Barnes Did Light Novels Finish the French Monarchy? The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France By Robert Darnton
Kevin MacDonald The Full Horror of Ordinary People The World According to Mike Leigh By Michael Coveney LR
Laura Cumming Who Knows What Went On In That House? Djuna: The Life & Work of Djuna Barnes By Phillip Herring
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