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Drag: A History Of Female Impersonation On The Stage Roger

Baker (Triton Press 45s) Travesty of truth NED SHERRIN `Though he welcomed his guests wearing a smartly cut red dress, a blonde wig—fashion- ably back combed and lacquered—and......

Weekend Rebel

KENNETH ALLSOP In October 1967 Norman Mailer—`America's best novelist? and America's inspiration to the young??????'—took part in an anti-Vietnam march on the Pentagon. The......

Burning Sappho

. SIMON RAVEN This book is neither a biography of Radclyffe Hall, though it includes a• brief biographical chapter, nor yet a critical assessment of her work, 'though there are......