From the October 2017 Issue Scare Stories The Ghost: A Cultural History By Susan Owens Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds By Leo Braudy LR
From the August 2016 Issue Knocking on Heaven’s Door Near-Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife By John Martin Fischer & Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin Afterlife: A History of Life after Death By Philip C Almond LR
From the December 2012 Issue Favourite Haunts A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof By Roger Clarke LR
From the May 2013 Issue Grave Matters The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead By Carl Watkins LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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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: