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A Curious Kind Of Liberation

William Trevor THE CLOTHES THEY STOOD UP IN I n all sorts of ways the short story is an awkward customer. It is so for the publish- er, lost in his conviction that when ten or a......

Hate In A Cold Climate

Stephen Cang MAN IS WOLF TO MAN: SURVIVING STALIN'S GULAG by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson Simon and Schuster, £16.99, pp. 387 T here are two stories in this riveting......