October 2002 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Foreign Parts | Adventures | Fiction Foreign Parts Lindsey Hughes Pattern of a Shawl Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia By Orlando Figes LR Adventures Christopher Ondaatje Boldly Going The Faber Book of Exploration By Benedict Allen LR Fiction Francis King We Are Amused The Crimson Petal and the White By Michel Faber LR Robert S C Gordon Eco Warrior Baudolino By Umberto Eco LR Christopher Hart Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Cet Homme? Platform By Michel Houellebecq LR Sam Leith Another Shandy? Middlesex By Jeffrey Eugenides 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 :
https://literaryreview.co.uk/flotsam-and-jetsam