June 1997 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Women | Biography & Memoirs | General | India | Fiction by Men Women Maggie Gee Last Seen Raging Skating to Antarctica By Jenny Diski LR Biography & Memoirs Gillian Beer Endogamous Nesting Duncan Grant By Frances Spalding LR George Melly Take Your Pick Turner: Standing in the Sun By Anthony Bailey Turner: A Life By James Hamilton General John Mortimer Nothing So Decadent as Pemberton Billing Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War By Philip Hoare LR Robert Fisk Sunny Side of Saddam A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite By Said K Aburish LR India Caroline Moore Initiation into Despair The God of Small Things By Arundhati Roy LR Fiction by Men James Walton Tough On Her Dad American Pastoral By Philip Roth LR
George Melly Take Your Pick Turner: Standing in the Sun By Anthony Bailey Turner: A Life By James Hamilton
John Mortimer Nothing So Decadent as Pemberton Billing Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War By Philip Hoare LR
Robert Fisk Sunny Side of Saddam A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite By Said K Aburish LR
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