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And All The Trappings

J. G. Links CAESARS OF THE WILDERNESS by Peter C. Newman Viking, £14.95, pp. 480 P eter Newman pauses before resuming his history of the Hudson's Bay Company to tell of the......

Breakfast At Tiffany's, Dinner Alone

Patrick Taylor Martin CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke Hamish Hamilton, £16.95, pp.631 I 'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm a homosexual. I'm a genius.' Of Truman......

Looking Ahead

Seeing in the muddled distance of pedestrians a form that seems, at first, to be prone across the paving stones, I'm filled with apprehension and sympathy. This is what it is to......