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Far From Ordinary Commonplaces

Peter Levi INTERPLAY by D. J. Enright OUP, £16.99, pp. 237 f all the kinds of book the one that entices you least is surely the commonplace book: the book you read, or possibly......

Goya: Still Life With Golden Bream

Like thick scaly fingers Stacked across each other They glitter in moonlight By the edge of the sea, Their mouths have closed On war sadness, A heap of helplessness In silver......

An Honest Man Sent To Tell The Truth Abroad

John Simpson IN HARM'S WAY: REFLECTIONS OF A WAR ZONE THUG by Martin Bell Hamish Hamilton, £15.99, pp. 274 E st, the disclaimers. Martin Bell is a friend and a colleague of......