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Sleep Brings Not Darkness

Jonathan Keates PRIVATE MYTHS: DREAMS AND DREAMING by Anthony Stevens Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 385 F or a long period in human history, dreams were respectable. People......

An Escape, But More Than Escapism

Anita Brookner LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler Chatto, £14.99, pp. 326 A dmirers of Anne Tyler — and they are legion — will certainly succumb to her new novel, all the more easily......