25 APRIL 1998, page 43

New Man Of Letters

William Scammell TOO TRUE by Blake Morrison Granta, £9.99, pp. 326 B lake Morrison's career is a standing refutation of John Gross's thesis about the death of the man of......

To Each His Suff'rings

Teresa Waugh A DEFENCE OF MASOCHISM by Anita Phillips Faber, £9.99, pp. 307 I t is not easy to envisage the readership at which Anita Phillips is aiming in A Defence of......

Correction

In Michael Howard's review of Jeremy Black's Why Wars Happen (18 April) refer- ence was made to 'another 11 years, and 50 years of hideously destructive conflict'. This should......