26 JANUARY 1985, page 23

The Lonely American

Ferdinand Mount Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie (Michael Joseph £8.95) Slow Learner Thomas Pynchon (Cape £8.50) V linnie Miner is small, neat, fastidious V and 54 years old. She is......

Progress

A neighbour complains the local fox tears open The plastic bags the Council have supplied To help the poor old dustmen by compelling People to take their muck to their front......

Books

Who was to blame? Charles Glass The War for Lebanon 1970-1983 Itamar Rabinovich (Cornell University Press £19.95) Israel's Lebanon War Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari (Allen &......