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His Master's Voice

James Walton REAL LIFE by D. J. Taylor Chatto, f14.99, pp. 265 D J. Taylor is a brave man. Three years ago, he wrote A Vain Conceit, a work of criticism whose basic premises (if......

Gender

To live beyond the pale of sexes in a form of otherness beyond your body or the praxis of habits or of dress is given briefly, for a second, a fractioned fraction of a pulse of......

Nothing But A Phonus Bolonus

Andro Linklater DAMON RUNYON by Jimmy Breslin Hodder & Stoughton, f17.99, pp. 410 I t is hard to believe that with such a name the Rognions, citizens of 17th- century Poitou,......

Books

It makes you go blind James Buchan VOX by Nicholson Baker Granta, £14.99, £7.99, pp. 169 A nybody who has travelled on public transportation in the United States will know that......