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Plashy Fen at Risk

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

One of theĀ Ā cover stories in this week’s TLS is “Plashy Fens: The Limitations of Nature Writing” by Richard Smyth. Or so its title is described on the contents page, if not in the heading of the on-line version of the … Continue reading →

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TLS Reviews Memoir of Gore Vidal

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In this weeks TLS James Campbell reviews Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of Gore Vidal by novelist Michael Mewshaw. The review mentions a 1978 dinner party in Italy to which Mewshaw invited Vidal and his partner Howard Austen. The … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Spanish Civil War

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s views on the Spanish Civil War recently came up for comment in the TLS. In his review (July 4) of a recent book about war correspondents in Spain, Hotel Florida by Amanda Vaill, Jeremy Treglown commented that it was … Continue reading →

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