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A Cool And Unflappable Gaze

Peter Fuller REPORTED SIGHTINGS: ART CHRONICLES 19574987 by John Ashbery Carcanet, f25, pp.417 I t is a pity that Oscar Wilde's dialogue, 'The Critic as Artist', is so little......

City Of The Plain And Not So Plain

Harriet Waugh TALES OF THE CITY, MORE TALES OF THE CITY, FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY: AN OMNIBUS by Armistead Maupin Chatto & Windus, f14.95, pp.768 SURE OF YOU by Armistead......