16 JANUARY 1988, page 29

Things Past And Things Passed On

Anita Brookner THE MESSIAH OF STOCKHOLM by Cynthia Ozick Andre Deutsch, £9.95 L ars Andemening, his name picked out of a dictionary, is a book reviewer on a Stockholm newspaper.......

The Bear Is Still On The Prowl

Radek Sikorski SOVIET POWER: THE CONTINUING CHALLENGE by James Sherr Macmillan Press, £29.50 W hat is Mr Gorbachev, we all ask ourselves? A revolutionary trying to break the......