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They Forgot To Remember To Forget

Carole Angier THE EMIGRANTS by W. G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse Harvill, £14.99, pp. 237 T he Emigrants is not only about emigra- tion. It is about internal as well as......

Justified By

genius Jane Gardam MATISSE'S WAR by Peter Everett Cape, £15.99, pp. 332 I can never get straight whether Picasso said, 'There is only Matisse,' or 'There is only one Matisse.'......