10 JANUARY 1998, page 25

Father Of A Thousand Beards

Richard West T he Argentine cult of the tragic victim may have begun in 1935 with the death in a plane crash of Carlos Gardel, the tango composer whose mournful songs spread the......

Books

A revolution under way Hugh Lawson-Tancred HOW THE MIND WORKS by Steven Pinker Allen Lane, £25, pp. 660 D o you enjoy the view of a well laid- out park, a gently undulating......