The Times Literary Supplement, Issue 4647, 24 April 1992

Gordon Burn contributes "Edge City terrors", p. 17, a review of the David Cronenberg film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch.

At page 19 is an advertisement for the film.

Published in London, England by The Times in April 1992.

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Selected Contents: 

• John Bayley: "The Black Wizard's Spell" (review of Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City: 1939-1966 by Martin Stannard)
• Robert Saxton: "A Drink in a Country Churchyard" (poetry)
• Penelope Fitzgerald: "Too Long a Sacrifice" (review of The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 edited by Anna McBride White and A. Norman Jeffares)
• John Dunn: "In the Glare of Recognition" (review of The End fo History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama)
• John H. Yoder: review of Interpretations of Conflict by Richard B. Miller
• Geoffrey Best: "Ranging from Plato to Nero" (combined review of International Theory by Martin Wight and Code of Peace by Dorothy V. Jones)
• Harvey Mansfield: "When the People have Spoken" (review of We the People by Bruce Ackerman)
• Zachary Leader: "Consenting Authors" (review of Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius by Jack Stillinger)
• Frank Cioffi: "Crisis on Crisis" (review of Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire by Vincent Crapanzano)
• Harry Smart: "Würzburger Dom" (poetry)
• Mary Beard: "Dad Is Dead" (combined review of Fathers and Sons edited by John Hoyland, and Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem)
• Lindsey Hughes: "The Gathering Darkness" (review of Mothers and Daughters by Elena Bonner)
• Alan Ross: "Countries of the Heart" (review of The Last of England by Ted Walker)
• Patricia Craig: "A Florid Reticence" (review of Drink to the Bird by Benedict Kelly)
• Brendan King: "Glowing with Nostalgia" (review of Other Days Around Me by Richard Hough)
• Eric Korn: "Life and Times of a Regency Blackmailer" (essay)
• Hugo Williams: "Freelance" (essay)
• Ted Hughes: "Ted Hughes and the Plath Estate" (letter)
• letters
• Robert Snell: "In an Uninhabitable Zone" (reviews of Van Gogh film and art exhibition)
• Gordon Burn: "Edge City Terrors" (review of Naked Lunch, the film by David Cronenberg)
• Barbara Everett: "Freeing Spirits in Covent Garden" (review of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw)
• Philip Brady: review of Berlin Bertie by Howard Brenton at Royal Court Theatre
• Richard Dorment: "Developing a Look" (review of William Morris by Charles HArvey and Jon Press)
• Rosemary Hill: "An Alchemical Branch of Craftsmanship" (review of G. Argy-Rousseau by Janine Bloch-Dermant)
• Eric Sams: "Diligent Servant of Music" (review of Mendelssohn and His World by R. Larry Todd)
• Peter Kemp: "A House full of Horrors" (review of The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales edited by Chris Bldrick)
• Phil Baker: review of The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
• Robert Tombs: "The Stolen Revolution" (combined review)
• William Doyle: "The Napoleonic Order" (review of Napoleon's Integration of Europe by Stuart Woolf)
• Michael R. Marrus: "Preoccupations with the Occupation" (review of The Vichy Syndrome by Henry Rousso)
• Vincent Wright: "Behind the Mask" (review of De Gaulle: The Ruler by Jean Lacoutre)
• Gordon Donaldson: "Highland and Islands" (review of Beyond the Highland Line by Caroline Bingham)
• T. M. Devine: "Scottish Exodus" (review of The People of Glengarry by Marianne McLean)
• Valerie Pearl: "Housing Authority" (review of Architecture and Power by Robert Tittler)
• M. R. D. Foot: "A Double Act" (review of Hindenburg and Ludendorff by Robert B. Asprey)
• Richard Bessel: "Cuckoo's Flight" (review of Hess by Peter Padfield)
• Alastair Hamilton: "Reformer Communists" (review of The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods by James M. Stayer)
• Thomas Munck: "Scanning Sweden" (review of From Oxenstierna to Charles XII by Michael Roberts)
• Delia Davin: "Custom of the Country" (review of The Lotus Lovers by Howard S. Levy)
• Frances Wood: "Chinese Plots" (review of Scholar Gardens of China by R. Stewart Johnston)
• Robert Carver: "All the Raj" (review of India by Bruce Palling

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