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A Cute Little Wimp Called Tony

Humphrey Carpenter THE MORONIC INFERNO AND OTHER VISITS TO AMERICA by Martin Antis Cape, £9.95 A nthony Powell stabs Lady Violet and nearly kills her. William Golding nearly......

A Stubborn Quiet

God is a great emptiness I know is there: The somewhere else without which Nothing is. A stubborn quiet noise cannot put out. Not that I woke And in due course shall sleep. Not......

Christ Was African But Asexual

Denis Hills THE AFRICANS: A TRIPLE HERITAGE by All Mazrui BBC, f14.95 A s a youthful professor of political science at Makerere university, Kampala, in the Sixties, Ali Mazrui......