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`a Little Inaccuracy Sometimes Saves Lots Of Explanation'

Alan Judd THE DOUBLE LIFE OF STEPHEN CRANE by Christopher Benfey Deutsch, £17.99, pp. 294 M ost people who know anything about Stephen Crane know him as the turn-of-the-century......

Bringing Home The Bacon

Andro Linklater THE UBIQUITOUS PIG by Marilyn Nisseson and Susan Jonas Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f16.99, pp. 136 hen I was eight, I owned a pig called Hamlet. Its name must have......