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Books

I t is Joseph Epstein's contention, in a hilarious essay called 'They Said You Was High Class', that Robert Lowell's disting- uished 'WASP' genealogy must have helped him as a......

Popular With Other Boys

Frances Donaldson GEORGE VI by Patrick Howarth Hutchinson, f12.95 T here here are signs suggesting that writers in search of a subject for royal biography are extending the......

Frying Tonight

Outside, the dark breathes vinegar and salt; The lemon window seems to salivate, Draws peckish kids, black moths to candlelight. Inside you may sit down to eat, or take Your......