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Deus In Machina

Anita Brookner ROGER'S VERSION by John Updike Deutsch, 19.95 N obody writes English like John Up- dike. Whether the subject is adultery in a small university town (as it usually......

Russia's Greatest Poet Proses

Andrei Navrozov LESS THAN ONE by Joseph Brodsky Viking, 115.95 P oets in our civilisation,' a famous poet wrote in his most famous essay, 'must be difficult'. He went on to......