May 1996 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Sex Through the Ages | Autobiography | Philosophies | Belles Lettres | Biography Sex Through the Ages Antonia Fraser Harlot Saints Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England By Ruth Mazo Karras Autobiography Anthony Holden Elegant Pensées Not Entitled: A Memoir By Frank Kermode Philosophies Bryan Appleyard Catalogue of Ecstasy The Face of Glory: Creativity, Consciousness and Civilization By William Anderson Belles Lettres Kate Hubbard Lashers for Breakfast Lantern Slides: The Letters and Diaries of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914 By Mark Bonham Carter and Mark Pottle (eds) Biography Norman Stone Furiously Rebellious Fat Bertie Locked Inside Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude By Ray Monk
Antonia Fraser Harlot Saints Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England By Ruth Mazo Karras
Bryan Appleyard Catalogue of Ecstasy The Face of Glory: Creativity, Consciousness and Civilization By William Anderson
Kate Hubbard Lashers for Breakfast Lantern Slides: The Letters and Diaries of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914 By Mark Bonham Carter and Mark Pottle (eds)
Norman Stone Furiously Rebellious Fat Bertie Locked Inside Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude By Ray Monk
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