Clive James writes about literary magazines
Clive James, 7 November 1985
London Reviews
edited by Nicholas Spice.
Chatto, 222 pp., £5.95, October 1985,0 7011 2988 3 Show More
edited by Nicholas Spice.
Chatto, 222 pp., £5.95, October 1985,
The New Review Anthology
edited by Ian Hamilton.
Heinemann, 320 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 434 31330 0 Show More
edited by Ian Hamilton.
Heinemann, 320 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
Night and Day
edited by Christopher Hawtree, by Graham Greene.
Chatto, 277 pp., £12.95, November 1985,0 07 011296 7 Show More
edited by Christopher Hawtree, by Graham Greene.
Chatto, 277 pp., £12.95, November 1985,
Lilliput goes to war
edited by Kaye Webb.
Hutchinson, 288 pp., £10.95, September 1985,9780091617608 Show More
edited by Kaye Webb.
Hutchinson, 288 pp., £10.95, September 1985,
Penguin New Writing: 1940-1950
edited by John Lehmann and Roy Fuller.
Penguin, 496 pp., September 1985,0 14 007484 8 Show More
edited by John Lehmann and Roy Fuller.
Penguin, 496 pp., September 1985,
“... that the number is uncertain and there is no must about it. Knowledgeably editing this selection, Christopher Hawtree dismisses the cosy idea that the magazine’s early demise was due solely to the libel suit brought by Shirley Temple after Graham Greene, the magazine’s cinema reviewer, suggested that she knowingly flaunted her precocious ... ”
