17 NOVEMBER 1984, page 34

Like Pigs

Miranda Seymour In Search of a Past Ronald Fraser (Verso £.15) M ore than ten years ago, Ronald Fras- er set out with a tape recorder and a sizeable grudge against the English......

Mad Moth

Brandon Russell 'M aking the world safe for democracy', is the much-vaunted, self-righteous justification Americans give for military intervention in foreign disputes. It is,......

Browsers' Corners

Christopher Hawtree Author! Author! Edited by Richard Findlater (Faber & Faber £6.95; £2.951 Modern First Editions Joseph Connolly (Orbis £15) N ot having published anything, it......