From the December 2003 Issue Niving it Up Niv: The Authorised Biography of David Niven By Graham Lord LR
From the October 2004 Issue In Praise of the Hot-Water Bottle Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost & Where Did It Go? By Michael Bywater LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
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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.
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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: