Craig Brown

Uninvited Intimacy

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By Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan

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Peter Cook

Essential Facts Missing

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October 1996 Issue

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A Love Letter from the Friends He Left Behind

Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered

By Lin Cook (ed.)

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May 2000 Issue

Christopher Hart

Joyful Logorrhoea

King of the City

By Michael Moorcock

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January 1997 Issue

Lisa Jardine

Not For This Princess

Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

By Howard Jacobson

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April 1997 Issue

Wallace Arnold

Thin Ice

The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage

By Kingsley Amis

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October 1983 Issue

Susan Marling

Make Lunch Not War

The Limits of Sex

By Celia Haddon

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December 1992 Issue

Victoria Mather

Why I Hate the Country

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December 1979 Issue

Philip Thody

Wodehouse and the Critics

P. G. Wodehouse, An Illustrated Biography

By Joseph Connolly

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February 2016 Issue

Dominic Green

Eye for a Joke

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

By Lee Siegel

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January 1984 Issue

Stephen Pickles

Interval Talk

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November 1984 Issue

Richard Curtis

Two Great Books

Anna Karenin

By Leo Tolstoy

Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book

By Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Lise Mayer

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July 1985 Issue

Richard Curtis

Sweet FA

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August 2003 Issue

David Profumo

From Pinocchio to ‘Pataphysics

The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity

By Matthijs van Boxsel, Arnold and Erica Pomerans (trans.)

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August 2003 Issue

Alan Rafferty

Weird Science

A Short History Of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

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October 2008 Issue

David Profumo

Lost in Translation

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

By Jim Holt

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December 2007 Issue

Michael Barber

Comic Cuts

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By Daniel Tatarsky (ed)

The Complete Peanuts: Volume 1 1950–52, Volume 2 1953–54

By Charles M Schulz

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November 2013 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Fooling with Feinstein

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

By Ruth R Wisse

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