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The Flight From Refinement

Jasper Griffin THE PREFERENCE FOR THE PRIMITIVE: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN TASTE AND ART by E. H. Gombrich Phaidon, £35, pp. 324, ISBN 0714841544 h e late Sir Ernst......

A Very African Story

Ronald Mutebi THE DEVIL THAT DANCED ON WATER by Aminatta Forna HatperCollins, £17.99, pp. 416, ISBN 0002570653 T he voices we rarely hear in literature are those of the children......