August 1996 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Religion | Reviews | Travel | Fiction II Religion Hugh Trevor-Roper What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked The Gunpowder Plot By Antonia Fraser LR Reviews Philip Caraman A Model Protestant Thomas Cranmer: A Life By Diarmaid MacCulloch LR Travel Sara Wheeler Once So Great Backwards Out Of The Big World LR Fiction II A S Byatt They Sang Against Each Other Most Harmoniously Matisse's War By Peter Everett LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery
Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
Fiona Sampson - Changed in a Minute
Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: