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The Modern Carlyle

John Whitworth MAO II by Don DeLillo Jonathan Cape, £14.99, pp. 241 T his is a smart book written in short sentences. Often without verbs. Like advertising. Brita is a......

Dakar, A Beggar Child

I commend this orphan child to my dead father, my grandparents. She was so endearing, so lovable. Help her against the dark, the loneliness of death. Help her into heaven. She......

Landscape With Peasants

Andro Linklater THE TAX INSPECTOR by Peter Carey Faber & Faber, £14.99, pp, 279 I n the old days, when kindly scientists were still trying to develop 'smart' weapons as the......