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Arts

Edinburgh Festival time Allan Massie evertheless' is a great Scottish word. Muriel Spark once skid she became a Catholic on the 'nevertheless' principle, and she writes her......

Fair Play

David Williams The Literary Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society Laurence Lerner (Haryester Press £18.95) H ere Professor Lerner collects trin e excellent pieces about......