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The Most Charitable Interpretation

David Caute T HE C OLD W AR by John Lewis Gaddis Allen Lane, £20, pp. 400, ISBN 0713999128 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 L ate November 1950: United Nations forces......

Conundrums That Will Not Go Away

Mary Furness PHILOSOPHY: T HE L ATEST A NSWERS TO THE O LDEST Q UESTIONS by Nicholas Fearn Atlantic, £17.99, pp. 304, ISBN 1843540665 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 N......

Hellish Motorway Experience

Robert Cooper L istening to Jim Norton reading The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on this outstanding recording is a first-class way of either revisiting James Joyce’s......