11 MARCH 1989, page 42

A Chekov In America, Sometimes

Sousa Jamba IN THE DEEP SOUTH by Roy Kerridge Michael Joseph, £14.95, pp.332 T he New Orleans YCMA was one of the most depressing places in America that I visited: the walls......

First And Second Novels

Nicholas Lezard N ovelists, since Flaubert I suppose, have tried conscientiously to be as true to the Inner Experience of the characters they write about as possible, and one......

The Scoops Of A Wandering Poet

Richard West ALL THE WRONG PLACES: ADRIFT IN THE POLITICS OF ASIA by James Fenton Viking, £12.95, pp.269 W hen the young poet James Fenton was offered a grant in 1973 to travel......