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Grass Roots

MICHAEL VREELAND Local Anaesthetic Gunter Grass translated by Ralph Manheim (Seeker and Warburg 35s) Gunter Grass has given up the drum for the television set. His reasons......

Books A Man Of The Enlightenment

MAX BELOFF When President Kennedy entertained at a White House dinner the Nobel prizewinners of the Americas, he remarked that his guests constituted 'the most extraordinary......