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Arts

Exhibitions 1 Unresolved issue Giles Auty Richard Diebenkorn (Whitechapel Gallery, till 1 December) Jenny Franklin (Crane Gallery, till 16 November) Luke Elwes (Rebecca Hossack......

Wresting Tragic Grandeur From The Ordinary

Francis King SCUM by Isaac Bashevis Singer Cape, £14.99, pp. 218 A writer shows his true worth when he takes some incident familiar from countless other novels and then makes of......