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,
“... My Observer colleague Neal Ascherson – present in this anthology with an exemplary piece on Ken Livingstone – once observed that the task of the literary editor is to ruin the next generation of writers. In diverting them from what they think they should be doing to what he thinks they should be doing, he had better believe that it is a far, far ... ”