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Books?

Who needs them? Martin Fagg O ne journalist I know wears white cotton gloves while reading his review copies. They thus remain clean enough for subsequent flogging off to our......

A Riddle I Have A Friend Who, When I Am

alone, Sits with me — and how intimate we've grown! He talks, but what he says he never hears, He is unfeeling, but he dries my tears. He has one back, he has a hundred faces As......

Down There On A Fair-minded Visit

Alan Angell `SWEET WAIST OF AMERICA': JOURNEYS AROUND GUATEMALA by Anthony Daniels Hutchinson, £14.95, pp. 249 I n the closing pages of this book, the author asks, rather......