December 2018 Issue Nicky Haslam Conversations with Friends No Longer with Us: Encounters with Naim Attallah By Naim Attallah LR
October 1993 Issue Hugh Trevor-Roper Who is This Subtle Man Who Asks the Questions? More of a Certain Age By Naim Attallah
July 2016 Issue Anna Reid ‘Things only ever got worse’ Second-Hand Time: The Last of Soviets By Svetlana Alexievich (Translated by Bela Shayevich) 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
October 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Sore Feet, Heavenly Eyes China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation By Xinran (Translated by Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman and Julia Lovell) LR
May 2008 Issue M R D Foot In Daily Peril Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War By Roderick Bailey (ed) LR
February 2013 Issue Kevin Jackson Conversations on a Concrete Island Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967–2008 By Simon Sellars & Dan O’Hara (ed) LR
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