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The Slow Poison Of Praise

Anne Applebaum O RSON W ELLES : H ELLO AMERICANS by Simon Callow Cape, £25, pp. 507, ISBN 0224038532 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 M ore than 60 years after its release,......

A Meeting Of True Minds

Anita Brookner T HE E LEMENT OF L AVISHNESS : L ETTERS OF S YLVIA T OWNSEND W ARNER AND W ILLIAM M AXWELL , 1938-1978 edited by Michael Steinman Counterpoint, £13.50, pp. 356,......