December 1996 Issue Tobias Jones One of the Best Places to Think About Things Moon Country: Further Reports from Iceland By Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell LR
June 2015 Issue Jeremy Noel-Tod For Love & Money The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume V, 1963–1968 By Edward Mendelson (ed) The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume VI, 1969–1973 By Edward Mendelson (ed) LR
March 2011 Issue Bernard O’Donoghue He Noticed Such Things The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume IV, 1956–1962 By Edward Mendelson (ed) LR
June 2008 Issue Peter McDonald Firbank, Bellini and Rare Steak W H Auden: Prose, Volume III – 1949–1955 By Edward Mendelson (ed) LR
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