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May 1987 Issue - 26 ArticlesCan Gorbachev Change the System?
- Language & Power in Soviet Society
Alain Besancon and George Urban
, pp. 3-12 - Poem
John Cameron Burnside
, pp. 13-14 - Dog Days (story)
Hilary Mantel
, pp. 15-20 - Poem
Carole Satyamurti
, p. 21 - Poem
John Gurney
, pp. 22-23 - Column
"M."
, pp. 24-26 Notes & Topics
- Paris Notebook
Jean-Francois Revel
, pp. 27-30 - Chess Poisoning
David Spanier
, pp. 31-32 Books & Writers
- The Bubble, Reputation
C.A.R. Hills
, pp. 33-37 The Decline & Rise of Barbara Pym
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Message from the Back (2 Reviews) Miles Kington
, pp. 38-41 Where Have All the Bullets Gone?, by Spike Milligan
- Where Have All the Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
- Goodbye Soldier by Spike Milligan
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Fictions of Freedom (12 Reviews) Michael Thorpe
, pp. 42-45 Morning Yet on Creation Day, by Chinua Achebe
- Morning Yet on Creation Day by Chinua Achebe
- Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan
- An Unfinished Journey by Shiva Naipaul
- Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri
- Search, Sweet Country by B. Kojo Laing
- Proud Empires by Austin Clarke
- A State of Independence by Caryl Phillips
- Digging up the Mountains by Neil Bissoondath
- The Carnival Trilogy by Wilson Harris
- The Womb of Space by Wilson Harris
- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera
- Poem
Li Ch'ing-chao
, p. 46 -
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Books Encountered (17 Reviews) R.M.
, p. 47 Important Nonsense, by Lionel Abel
- Important Nonsense by Lionel Abel
- A Little of All These by Tania Alexander
- Forever England by Beryl Bainbridge
- The Faber Book of Diaries by Simon Brett
- The Lost Summer by Tony Buttitta
- The Literature Machine by Italo Calvino
- Searching for World Security by Curt Gasteyger
- Selected Literary Criticism of Louis Macneice by Alan Heuser and Louis MacNeice
- The Selkirk Strip by Ferdinand Mount
- The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips
- Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject by Makiko Minow-Pinkey
- Words at Work by Randolph Quirk
- Judith Gautier by Joanna Richardson
- Thomas Hobbes by Arnold A. Rogow
- The Precariously Privileged by Zuzanna Shonfield
- The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain by Paul Swann
- Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes by David Thomson
East & West
- Out of the Gulag & into Exile
Yuri Orlov and Nicholas Bethell
, pp. 48-52 - Poem
George Szirtes
, p. 53 From the Other Shore
- On the Trans-Exhumation of Corpses
Mstislav Rostropovich
, pp. 54-56 - Poem
Richard Kell
, p. 57 Press
- The Correspondent in Moscow
David Satter
, pp. 58-62 - Poem
Heather Buck
, p. 63 Controversy
- The Arms Race & Mr Gorbachev
Richard Perle
, pp. 64-68 Language
- From Rape to Rapture
D.J. Enright
, pp. 69-71 - Authors, p. 72
Points of the Compass
- Haiti: The Day of the Exorcists
Rainer Fabian
, pp. 73-75 - Poem
Desmond Graham
, p. 76 - Letters, pp. 77-78
- Life & Letters, pp. 79-82