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Whence Grows The Tree Of Knowledge

Gerald Jacobs ROOTS SCHMOOTS: JOURNEYS AMONG JEWS by Howard Jacobson Viking, f16.99, pp. 502 H oward Jacobson begins this wry, sinewy account of a personal passage across the......

Telling Tales Out Of School

Anita Brookner FLAUBERT-SAND: THE CORRESPONDENCE translated by Francis Steegmuller and Barbara Bray Collins Harvill, £20, pp. 428 My ambition has never flown as 14h as yours.......