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Home Thoughts From A Gaol

Barbara Day LEITERS TO OLGA by Vaclav Havel Faber, £27.50, pp.397 NS. W hen the sun sets behind Prague Castle, Olga and Vaclav Havel can, for- tune permitting, contemplate the......

The Roth Of God Or Roth?

Rhoda Koenig THE FACTS: A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Philip Roth Cape, f11.95, pp.195 F or a satirist, Philip Roth sure wants to be liked — or, as he might put it, 'under-......