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Put It Down In Writing, Dad

J. L. Carr THE MAKER'S MARK by Roy Hattersley Macmillan, £13.95, pp.558 T his is a long novel, a family's everyday history which, like any West Riding pro- nouncement, carefully......

Should Rushdie Be Killed?

Edward Mortimer A SATANIC AFFAIR: SALMAN RUSHDIE AND THE RAGE OF ISLAM by Manse Ruthven Chatto & Windus, f14.95, pp. 184 LETTER TO CHRISTENDOM by Rana Kabbani Virago, £3.99, pp.......

Metamorphoses

Women spread sideways, by vegetative means. Planted in their cache-peau in the sitting room, tendrils a-twitch, like centipedes, they sniff out dirt beneath the objects on the......