April 2008 Issue
Belinda Jack
No Romance
Wartime Notebooks: and Other Texts
By Marguerite Duras, Edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, (Translated by Linda Coverdale)
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February 2008 Issue
Frederick Taylor
Inside the Nightmare
On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940–46
By Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg
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December 2007 Issue
Patrick O’Connor
Love From Snoopie
The Letters of Noël Coward
By Barry Day (ed)
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December 2007 Issue
Alan Brownjohn
How the Poet Became
Letters of Ted Hughes
By Christopher Reid (ed)
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October 2007 Issue
Piers Paul Read
Yours, Faithfully
Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
By Richard Greene (ed)
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September 2007 Issue
Alexander Waugh
‘A Leetle Beet Mad’
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
By Charlotte Mosley (ed)
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May 2006 Issue
William Packer
Star-Struck
Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose
By Elizabeth Cowling
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July 2012 Issue
David Collard
Possum Agonistes
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927
By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (ed)
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July 2012 Issue
David Cesarani
Dear Führer…
Letters to Hitler
By Henrik Eberle (ed) (Translated by Steven Rendall; English edition edited &introduced by Victoria Harris)
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December 2012 Issue
Sarah Bradford
Bertie, Lillibet, Margaret & Me
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
By William Shawcross (Ed)
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December 2012 Issue
Francis Wheen
Scourge of Obscenity
Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive
By Ben Thompson (Ed)
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December 2012 Issue
D J Taylor
The Squire & the Schoolmaster
Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919–1967 Vol 1: 1919–1931; Vol 2: 1932–1947; Vol 3: 1951–1967
By Carol Z Rothkopf (Ed)
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May 2013 Issue
Robert Gordon
The Reluctant Autobiographer
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941–1985
By Martin McLaughlin (translated)
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February 2014 Issue
Richard Canning
Yours Unfaithfully
The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
By Katherine Bucknell (ed)
The Man Who Was Norris: The Life of Gerald Hamilton
By Tom Cullen
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July 2013 Issue
Jay Parini
Antic Roadshow
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
By Dan Wakefield (ed)
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August 2013 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Letters to the Editor
The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past
By Denis Kozlov
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October 2013 Issue
Jane Ridley
Listen to Mother
Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich
By John Julius Norwich (ed)
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October 2013 Issue
Justin Beplate
Talking Bull
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925
By Sandra Spanier, Albert J DeFazio III & Robert W Trogdon (edd)
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April 2013 Issue
John Sutherland
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
By R Kent Rasmussen
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In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors.
Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution.
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The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages. As he lived under threat of assassination, books had to be sent to him under ever-changing pseudonyms. Here are a selection of his pieces:
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Book reviews by Oleg Gordievsky
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The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened.
@StephenSmithWDS wonders how two East End gadflies infiltrated the Eastern Bloc.
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Stephen Smith: From Russia with Lucre - Gilbert & George and the Communists by James Birch
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