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Oxford-based tri-quarterly arts journal: Fiction, Poetry, Reportage, Reviews

6 books
Book Cover for: Collected French Translations: Poetry, John Ashbery

Collected French Translations: Poetry

John Ashbery
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Issue 54: John Ashbery; thefts confessed; new poetry from Oliver Reynolds & Christopher Reid. Full contents here https://t.co/P3UwEImMjq

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Book Cover for: Possession, A. S. Byatt

Possession

A. S. Byatt
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Do Not Reheat: A S Byatt's Possession gives our critic indigestion http://t.co/v8s9oci6a9

Paperback, 1991

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Batlava Lake, Adam Mars-Jones

Batlava Lake

Adam Mars-Jones
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A novella from one of our finest critics: Batlava Lake by Adam-Mars Jones’s is a wormhole to Kosovo at the turn of the millennium. Inhabit the mind and body of Barry, an ‘Approved Person’, for 61 very funny pages in this masterpiece of particularity. Only in Areté 54.

Paperback, 2021

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor, Mark Towhey

Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor

Mark Towhey
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'A model political memoir': Jaspreet Singh Boparai on Mark @towhey's Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable https://t.co/E18vE1hGPI

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Book Cover for: Herzog: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Saul Bellow

Herzog: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Saul Bellow
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'Unbearably moving, enraging in his misogyny, endearing in his helplessness' - @HermioneEyre on Saul Bellow's Herzog http://t.co/QapJZYvyDC

Paperback, 2015

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938, W. H. Auden

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938

W. H. Auden
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Also in Issue 47: Nicholas Shrimpton on Auden's prose, Alexander Nurnberg on Mayakovsky, James Womack on Cortázar http://t.co/nXh8aq8miR

Hardcover, 2019

$357.00Member price:$357.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)