LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Jan 8 2015 Doris Lessing Paul de Man Margot Asquith

Description: LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSJanuary 8th, 2015, Volume 37, Number 1 The London Review of Books is a British, fortnightly published magazine of literary, political and social commentary essays written by well-known authors, historians and academics. Typically the essays are long, well-researched, sometimes controversial, but always interesting. Exhibitions, film releases and book reviews are also covered, and each issue features a couple of poems. These back issues offer a great insight into the events and upheavals, political and social, global and local, that were occuring at the time. In this issue:Andrew O’Hagan - The Lives of Ronald Pinn Jorie Graham - Poem: ‘WE’Michael Wood - The Paul de Man Notebooks edited by Martin McQuillan; The Double Life of Paul de Man by Evelyn BarishRobert Crawford - Poem: ‘Camera Obscura’Charles Hope - At the Royal AcademyDavid Bromwich - Working the Dark Side: On the Uses of TortureFerdinand Mount - Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914-16: The View from Downing Street selected and edited by Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock - Margot at War: Love And Betrayal In Downing Street, 1912-16 by Anne de Courcy; The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain’s Rush To War, 1914 by Douglas NewtonMichael Wood - At the Movies - Leviathan directed by Andrey ZvyagintsevJenny Diski - Doris and Me - Doris LessingChristopher Tayler - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann GoldsteinMarina Warner - Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange translated by Malcolm Lyons, introduced by Robert IrwinDaniel Soar - Short CutsCharles Nicholl - Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe by Chris LaoutarisEleanor Birne - At the Fitzwilliam: Artists’ MannequinsAnthony Grafton - Latin: Story of a World Language by Jürgen Leonhardt, translated by Kenneth KronenbergDavid A. Bell - Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground by Michael KwassAlan Bennett - Diary: What I did in 2014 44 pages The magazines are large-format, measuring approximately 38cm by 27cm. They have been folded, and will be sent folded. Condition: The magazine has previously been folded (and will be sent folded). Generally the condition is very good, showing light reading wear and some minor creasing, central pages are loose from the staples. The magazine pictured is the one you will receive. I accept returns, and if you’d like further information, please ask!DR 027 _gsrx_vers_1677 (GS 9.8.1 (1677))

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