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For Ignorant But Curious Amateurs

Peter Levi THE HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME II: SOCRATES AND BEYOND by Luciano De Crescenzo Picador, £12.95, pp.190 A lthough I remember reviewing the first volume of......

Partners That Do Not Change Enough

Mark Illis IN TRANSIT by Mavis Gallant Faber, £12.99, pp.229 M avis Gallant's characters, fathers and sons, lovers, husbands and wives, are hopelessly incompatible. They are......