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Making The Best Of It

Gabriele Annan FALLING SLOWLY by Anita Brookner Viking, £15.99, pp. 224 A nita Brookner is not everyone's cup of tea. Lager-lout critics who don't like any kind of tea tend to......

Off Limits And On Record

Hugh Brogan ABUSE OF POWER: THE NEW NIXON TAPES edited by Stanley Kutler The Free Press, £20, pp. 675 I t has long seemed to me that the Water- gate affair might have been a......