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Still Almost On Target

Rupert Christiansen VIRGIN ISLANDS: ESSAYS, 1992-1997 by Gore Vidal Deutsch, £17.99, pp. 320 S ome years ago, a ridiculously handsome young photographer friend of mine told me......

Desire And Pursuit

Anita Brookner ENDURING LOVE by Ian McEwan Cape, £15.99, pp. 247 D e Clerambault's syndrome, named after the French psychiatrist who first isolated and identified it in 1942,......

Unroll That Map ...

Jonathan Clark MAPS AND HISTORY by Jeremy Black Yale, £25, pp. 267 H istory is about chaps; geography is about maps.' In the days when England was run by self-important old men......