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Surfeit Of Oysters

TONY TANNER Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth (Cape 30s) At the end of one of Roth's early short stories ('The Conversion of the Jews'), Ozzie Freed- man stands on the roof of a......

Ancient Learning

ANGUS MAUDE The sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth produced in England what was probably proportionately the greatest and most intense investment in......