The Centre That Could Not Hold
FROM ROME TO BYZANTIUM: THE FIFTH CENTURY AD by Michael Grant Routledge, £25, pp. 203 R oman history begins in Rome and ends at Constantinople.' It recounts the slow shift of......
Clerihew Corner
Though history has proved Nietzsche A dangerous moral teacher, One's got to admit, , through teeth that clench, Mentally the chap was a bit of an Ubermensch. James Michie......
Sugar And Spice
Caroline Moore THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY by Nicholson Baker Chatto, £12.99, pp. 226 Y ou need a strong stomach to be a critic of modern novels, which collectively give the......
Shopping And Singing
Kevin Myers THE INFORMER by Sean O'Callaghan Bantam, £16.99, pp. 340 E ither Sean O'Callaghan is the biggest charlatan in the history of the IRA, or he is its most devastating......
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