Literary Review
28th November to 11th December 1980
Vol. 2 No. 4
Issue no. 30
Editor : Anne Smith Assistant Editors: Deborah Mitchell France Sharratt
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CONTENTS
Graham Sells: Rome Diary .. .. .. ..... .. ......... .... .... ..... ..... ........ ...... 3
Burgess
Lives and Letters
Fiction
Crime
Prizes
Poetry
Language
Politics
Martin Booth: Wit and Sin .. ..... .... .. ..... .... .. .. ... ... ....... ....... .... ..... . 4 Judy Dempsey: An Interview with Anthony Burgess ..... 6
Judy Cooke: the Old Magician ...... ...... .. .... ... ... ...... .. ... .... .. ... ... 7 Anne Smith: Evelyn Waugh 's Letters ......... .... .. .. ...... ... ... ... .. 8
Keith Parker : A Hell of a Faust .. ..... .. ... ... ...... ...... .. ..... ... ......... 10 Keith Miles: Morgan's Passing .... ..... ... ........ ...... .. .. ... ... .... ..... 11
Jack Adr ian : Murder and Mayhem .. ....... .... .... .. .. ... .... ... ..... . 12
Kenneth Atchity : LA Times Book Award .... .... ... ...... .. ... .... 13
Derek Bowman : Doomed Diviner ........... .. ..... .... .... ...... .... ... 14 Augustus Young : Culture Shocks .......... .. .... ... .. ..... ... ...... .... 15
Jean A itchison : Monkeying with Language .... .... ... .... ... .. 16 Guido Almansi : What is a Cucumber? ..... ....... ................... 17
Martin Walker: Peregrinations ... ... ................... ..... ........ .... .. . 19
Journalism
Val Hennessy: Politics of the Personal ....... .... .... .... ... ....... . 19
War
Ian Mather: Towards the Abyss ......... ... .. .... ......................... 20
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Biography
Sex
Music
James McDonald : Mao ... .................. .. ... ...... .. ... .. ...... ..... ... ... ... 21
Colin Wilson : Love and Conquest ... ...... ..... ......... ... ... .......... 23 Joan Freeman: Raging Hormones ......... ... .... ... ... ... ........ .... 25
Norman Lebrecht: Musical Dictionaries .. ... ... ..... .......... ... 27 Graham Bradshaw: Words and Music .... ... .. ... ...... ......... ... 28
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Children's Books
Janet Daley: Time-Life/Real Life ... ............................. ..... .... 29
Gillian Avery: Forbidden Fruit ...... ..... ........... .... ......... ..... ... ... 31 Fleur Adcock: Tales of the Antipodes .... ... .................... ... .31
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Paperbacks
Philip Dodd : Polit ical Theatre ........ ...... .. .... .. .. .. .... ...... ... ....... . 32 Br ian Merrik in Hill : Cosmos on the Fr inge ............ ......... . 34
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