Wurlitzers

Sir: Cinemas with Wurlitzers which ascend in devilish majesty from the pits of the orchestra may have practically vanished in the Thames Valley, as Valerie Grove asserts (Diary,......

Fontamara

Sir: Please accept my thanks for publishing Miranda Seymour's perceptive review (27 July) of Fontamara in Eric Mosbacher's translation of the post-war revised edition. Of course......

Indexing The News

Sir: Your note on varying newspaper cover of the horrible attack on an Asian family in Newham (`Burning hatred', 20 July) re- minds historians and others that they can no longer......

Letters Architectural Details

Sir: Roger Thompson of NELP (Letters, 14 September) suggests the Architectural Association is spendthrift, in that its costs have multiplied threefold since 1978-9, whereas......

Lord Kylsant

Sir: In his otherwise enjoyable review of Norman Lewis's autobiography Jackdaw Cake (Books, 28 September), Auberon Waugh makes rather heavy weather over the non-existence of a......

The Spectator

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