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Kicking Against The Pricks

AMONG THE THUGS by Bill Buford Seeker & Warburg, £14.99, pp. 317 W riters schooled in sociology use the word 'violence' in very strange ways. Cut loose from any imputation of......

Task

If I knew what they wished me to say I would say it. If! knew the right prayer for my case I would pray it. Would they have me bear witness on knees in the street Like......

Truth, Dare Or Keeping A Promise?

Andro Linklater THE FEATHER MEN by Ranulph Fiennes Bloomsbury, f.15.99, pp. 280 S omething about the desert drives the British mad. Perhaps, because heat and desiccation are the......

Walk

My hands, listless aristocrats, hang beneath the cuffs of my shirt sleeves. My feet, their distant cousins, humble peasants flash out beneath the hem of my skirt Hit the dirt......