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Nothing To Lose But His Chains

Paul Johnson THE NEW CENTURY by Eric Hobsbawm, with Antonio Polito Little, Brown, £16.99, pp. 176 T his is a curious little book of 176 pages, including index. It appears to be......

Touj Ours La Politesse

Jonathan Mirsky A GESTURE LIFE by Chang-rae Lee Granta, ,f16.99, pp. 356 T he hero of Chang-rae Lee's novel is a perfect Kazuo Ishiguro character. Indeed, Andrew Barrow, The......

How Not To Do It

D. J. Taylor THE CLEMATIS TREE by Ann Widdecombe Weidenfeld, £9.99, pp. 277 B ack in the early 1980s, down from university and avid for pin-money, I used to read manuscripts off......