Declan Ryan

Fun and games at the TLS

Academic jargon, back-scratching and literary scandals were all ripe for treatment in the long-running N.B. by J.C. column – now available in a glorious miscellany

James Campbell. [Carcanet Press]

  • N.B. by J.C. : A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement

    James Campbell

    Carcanet, pp. 356, £25

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