2 DECEMBER 1978, page 22

Why Is There No Nothing .

Auberon Waugh On Difficulty and Other Essays George Steiner (Oxford £5.50) Heldagger George Steiner (Fontana £1.25) George Steiner is not like other men. His prodigiously......

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Anthony Nutting Sphinx and Commissar Mohamed Heikai (Collins £6.95) Mohamed Heikal and his helper Edward Hodgkin, a former Foreign Editor of The Times, are to be congratulated......