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Anti-rationalism

Helen Smith Morality and Architecture David Watkin (OUP e2.95) David Watkin's new book is bound to cause a considerable raising of blood pressure amongst architectural......

Bombast

Auberon Waugh Harold's Years: Impression from the New Statesman and the Spectator edited by Kingsley Amis (Quartet £5.50) How does Kingsley Amis find time for it all? One opens......

Sky Writing

Peter Ackroyd Journey Into Fire Patricia Wright (Collins £4.95) Historical novelists always run the risk of being engulfed in vast processes which they barely understand. I......