June 1996 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Belles Lettres | Exploration | Wisdom | British Fiction | Belles Lettres | Biography Belles Lettres Alice Oswald Progress of a Master Collected Poems By Robert Nye LR Exploration J W M Thompson Why Did Anyone Wish to Discover the Poles? I May Be Some Time: Ice and The Imagination By Francis Spufford Wisdom Damian Thompson There is Not Very Much to Choose Between Them Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus By Anthony Storr LR Colin Wilson Filling in the Blanks Alter Egos: Multiple Personalities By David Cohen LR British Fiction Hilary Mantel Moral Grandeur The Cast Iron Shore By Linda Grant LR Belles Lettres Henry Porter Is This Our Quentin or Is it Dame Edith Evans? Resident Alien: New York Diaries By Quentin Crisp LR Biography Alex Woodcock-Clarke A Brave, Cat-Like Woman But No Good at Dancing Lola Montez: A Life By Bruce Seymor LR Derek Davies Very Strict Lady Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan By Julia Boyd LR
J W M Thompson Why Did Anyone Wish to Discover the Poles? I May Be Some Time: Ice and The Imagination By Francis Spufford
Damian Thompson There is Not Very Much to Choose Between Them Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus By Anthony Storr LR
Henry Porter Is This Our Quentin or Is it Dame Edith Evans? Resident Alien: New York Diaries By Quentin Crisp LR
Alex Woodcock-Clarke A Brave, Cat-Like Woman But No Good at Dancing Lola Montez: A Life By Bruce Seymor LR
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