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When The Wall Came Down

Michael Hulse HEROES LIKE US by Thomas Brussig, translated from the German by John Brownjohn Harvill, £9.99, pp. 250 E very nation likes to look at itself in the mirror. Germany......

Art In A Cold Climate

William Joll PATRICK PROCKTOR by John McEwen Scolar Press, £25, pp. 96 N o one familiar with the painters who have lived and exhibited in London in the last 40 years could fail......