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An Outsider Par Excellence

William Scammell READING AND WRITING: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT by V. S. Naipaul New York Review of Books, £9.99, pp. 80 V S. Naipaul has been taking a bit of a hammering lately. Or......

Was That All There Was?

Helen Osborne MAINLY ABOUT LINDSAY ANDERSON by Gavin Lambert Faber, £18.99, pp. 302 T he price of repression is extremely high,' Tony Richardson observed of Lind- say Anderson......