19 DECEMBER 1992, page 26

In Search Of A Novel Plot

RD. James discovers that for even the best writers an original idea is a scarce commodity A NOVELIST who is visited by what he or she thinks is an original idea experiences a......

If Symptoms Persist. . .

I TAKE IT as axiomatic that all men want to be free: free, that is, of the con- sequences of their own actions. When things go well, they praise themselves; when they go badly,......