27 MARCH 1993, page 35

It Is Better To Travel Hopelessly

Michael Hulse NATURAL OPIUM by Diane Johnson Chatto, £10.99, pp. 234 I am not fond of travel in the best of circumstances,' the American novelist Diane Johnson tells us in the......

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Some I admire assert verse fails when its theme is private hurt or love — for what, then, of public affairs? My daughter sleeps upstairs. Winter waits at the pane. I go through......

A Monster Deprived Of Insight

Francis King A LONELY DEVIL by Sousa Jamba Fourth Estate, £12.99, pp. 154 I t is a common fallacy that people incapable of love are unlovable. But in the case of Nando, the......