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Going The Whole Hog

David Wright CAITLIN: THE LIFE OF CAITLIN THOMAS by Paul Ferris Hutchinson, £20, pp. 277 B iography was still regarded as a gentlemanly business' when, soon after the poet's......

Brief Encounters Of A Sobbing Martian

Tom Shone VISITING MRS NABOKOV AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by Martin Amis Cape, £13.99, pp. 274 A his new collection of journalism shows, exaggeration has always been one of Martin......