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January 1986 Issue - 27 Articles- Waiting for His Excellency (story)
M.M. Carlin
, pp. 3-4 - Poem
Herbert Lomas
, p. 5 - Winds of Warning
James Rusbridger
, pp. 6-12 Enigma & Pearl Harbor
- Poem
Adrian Blackledge
, p. 13 - Column
"M."
, pp. 14-15 - Poem
Mary Sullivan
, pp. 16-18 Men & Ideas
- The War against the Whigs
George Watson
, pp. 19-25 Butterfield Reconsidered
- Poem
Michael Foley
, p. 26 - Poem
Jean Hanff Korelitz
, p. 27 Notes & Topics
- What Paper Do You Read?
Edward Pearce
, pp. 28-29 - Magic in Islington
Roy Kerridge
, pp. 30-32 - Paris Notebook
Jean-Francois Revel
, pp. 33-36 - Poem
Simon Curtis
, p. 37 Special Book Section: Literature & Criticism
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Derision's Master (Review) Christopher Ricks
, pp. 38-40 Alexander Pope: A Life, by Maynard Mack
- Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack
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Gods & Lovers (2 Reviews) Roger Lewis
, pp. 41-45 The Kingdom of the Wicked, by Anthony Burgess
- The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess
- Flame Into Being by Anthony Burgess
- Disraeli's Invention
Charles Mosley
, pp. 46-52 -
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Machine-Gun Morals & Lean Tales (4 Reviews) D.J. Taylor
, pp. 53-54 Beau Bumbo, by Andrew Sinclair
- Beau Bumbo by Andrew Sinclair
- Happy Families by Nigel Gray
- Twenty Stories by Francis King
- Lean Tales by James Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray
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Conceit & Concern (13 Reviews) John Mole
, pp. 55-61 New and Collected Poems, 1934-84, by Roy Fuller
- New and Collected Poems, 1934-84 by Roy Fuller
- Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig
- Selected Poems, 1963-1980 by Michael Longley
- Life by Drowning by Jeni Couzyn
- The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets by Jeni Couzyn
- The Fiction-Makers by Anne Stevenson
- Black Grate Poems by Anne Stevenson
- The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems by Richard Murphy
- Ukulele Music by Peter Reading
- A Voyage Round the Moon by John Gohorry
- Jouissance by William Scammell
- The Interrupted Dream by Tim Dooley
- Geometry by Alan Dewar
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Books Encountered (19 Reviews) R.M.
, p. 62 The Price of the Ticket, by James Baldwin
- The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin
- The Grain of the Voice by Roland Barthes
- On Signs by Marshall Blonsky
- The Everyman History of English Literature by Peter Conrad
- Fictions in Autobiography by Paul John Eakin
- From Fact to Fiction by Shelley F. Fishkin
- On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983 by Gunter Grass
- Messages by Naomi Lewis
- Strindberg by Michael Leverson Meyer
- Realism and Reality by Meenakshi Mukherjee
- The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens by Rajeev S. Patke
- Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction by Rubin Rabinovitz
- The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James by John Carlos Rowe
- David Low by Colin Seymour-Ure and Jim Schoff
- Queneau's Fiction by Christopher Shorley
- The Everyman Companion to the Theatre by Peter Thomson and Gamini Salgado
- Sensational Designs by Jane Tompkins
- Orwell: The War Commentaries by W.J. West and George Orwell
- Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig
- Poem
Raymond Tong
, p. 63 East & West
- Waugh & Peace Revisited
Teresa Cherfas
, pp. 64-67 - Poem
Stephen Knight
, p. 68 Points of the Compass
- The Ideological Pilgrims
Paul Hollander
, pp. 69-70 Authors & Critics
- A Dictionary?
Sidney Hook
, pp. 71-74
- Letters, pp. 75-78
- Life & Letters, p. 79
- Authors, pp. 80-82