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Not Many Options

Edward Mortimer ALL FALL DOWN: AMERICA'S FATEFUL ENCOUNTER WITH IRAN by Gary Sick I. B. Tauris, £16.50 D espite the crushing array of special studies and policy analyses that......

Labouring The Pointless

Kingsley Amis HUMMINGBIRDS AND HYENAS by Edward Pearce Faber, £4.95 A t first sight this is a most welcome publication. Unfortunately that first sight goes no further than Nick......

Career Wise

I've got a job with Poetry Inc. just now: nothing special, nine-to-five. One day is much like the next. But the discipline is fairly strict, and one has to have something to......