March 2000 Issue Jeremy Lewis Those Inky Scoundrels More Matter: Essays and Criticism By John Updike LR
April 2001 Issue D J Taylor The History of Mart The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 By Martin Amis LR
May 1980 Issue Maqbool Aziz Sanity in our time On the Contrary, Articles of Belief, 1946-1961 By Mary McCarthy LR
July 1997 Issue A S Byatt Her Philosophical Essays Changed Everything Existentials and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature By Iris Murdoch (edited by Peter Conradi) LR
July 1997 Issue Rhoda Koenig Still Elegantly Gloomy about America’s Future Virgin Islands: A Dependency of United States, Essays 1992-1997 By Gore Vidal LR
July 1981 Issue Christopher Hawtree Virginia Woolf: The Artist in a Commercial World A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf By B. J. Kirkpatrick LR
February 1984 Issue Carol Rumens Larkin About Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 By Philip Larkin LR
January 1992 Issue Sebastian Faulks John Updike’s Awesomely Conscientious Alter Ego Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism By John Updike LR
May 2009 Issue Alan Brownjohn The Rise of the Ordinary Bloke The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries By Zachary Leader (ed) LR
April 2009 Issue Bernard O'Donoghue His Master’s Voice Collected Poems By Michael Donaghy (With an introduction by Sean O’Brien) The Shape of the Dance: Essays, Interviews and Digressions By Michael Donaghy (Edited by Adam O’Riordan and Maddy Paxman, with an introduction by Clive James) LR
April 2009 Issue Alison Light Love Her Or Hate Her The Essays of Virginia Woolf – Volume 5: 1929 to 1932 By Stuart N Clarke (ed) LR
October 2008 Issue Diana Athill Biographia Literaria Magic Moments: Life-Changing Encounters with Books, Films, Music… By John Sutherland LR
December 2007 Issue Jonathan Mirsky The Word Merchant Due Considerations: Essays and Criticisms By John Updike LR
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