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Whence Grows The Tree Of Knowledge

Gerald Jacobs ROOTS SCHMOOTS: JOURNEYS AMONG JEWS by Howard Jacobson Viking, f16.99, pp. 502 H oward Jacobson begins this wry, sinewy account of a personal passage across the......

Hieronymo's Mad Againe

Felix Pryor CHRISTOFERUS: OR TOM KYDD'S REVENGE by Robin Chapman Sinclair-Stevenson, f14.99, pp. 393 T he 400th anniversary of Marlowe's death falls on 30 May, which also......

Entering My Sixty-second Year

I've always had this dread of growing old In untidiness: a worn tobacco pouch; The edges of a tablecloth rubbed and frayed Into tassels; accumulators; a deep drawer Full of tram......