December 1998 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Women | Art | Russia | Memoirs | General | Home Affairs | Foreign Parts | Autobiography | Fiction Women Edwina Currie Who’s Heard Of Her Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life By Georgina Ferry Art Jonathan Keates Works of Faith, Hope and Eroticism Caravaggio: A Life By Helen Langdon LR Russia Anne Applebaum They Did a Good Job Lenin's Embalmers By Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson LR Memoirs Niall Ferguson Safe at Last My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin By Peter Gay LR General David Profumo Fancy-Free Mongrel Shows the True Marmalade The Cassell Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green LR Raymond Carr I Just Enjoy It On Hunting By Roger Scruton LR Home Affairs Matthew Parris Fairest And Best This Blessed Plot: Britain And Europe From Churchill To Blair By Hugo Young LR Raymond Seitz First Steps Towards an Urban Ideal The English: A Portrait of a People By Jeremy Paxman Foreign Parts Thomas Pakenham Awe-Inspiring Account of Himalayas and Hindu Kush Among The Mountains: Travels in Asia By Wilfred Thesiger LR Autobiography Sean Day-Lewis Poets Should Choose Their Partners with Care Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas By Caitlin Thomas LR Fiction A S Byatt Their Normal Daily Lives Punctuated by Disaster The Love of a Good Woman By Alice Munro
David Profumo Fancy-Free Mongrel Shows the True Marmalade The Cassell Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green LR
Matthew Parris Fairest And Best This Blessed Plot: Britain And Europe From Churchill To Blair By Hugo Young LR
Raymond Seitz First Steps Towards an Urban Ideal The English: A Portrait of a People By Jeremy Paxman
Thomas Pakenham Awe-Inspiring Account of Himalayas and Hindu Kush Among The Mountains: Travels in Asia By Wilfred Thesiger LR
Sean Day-Lewis Poets Should Choose Their Partners with Care Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas By Caitlin Thomas LR
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
Seamus Perry - Before the Beard
Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
@claire_harman considers some of the most entertaining.
Claire Harman - Fighting Words
Claire Harman: Fighting Words - The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963 by Dan Gunn
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Of all the articles I’ve published in recent years, this is *by far* my favourite.
✍️ On childhood, memory, and the sea - for @Lit_Review :
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