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Short On Talent, Long On Genius

William Scammell PUSHKIN by Elaine Feinstein Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 309 P ushkin invented Russian literature single-handed, in his spare time, between whoring, gambling, duelling,......

Mapping A Prefab Paradise

Nicholas Waywell THE RUM DIARY by Hunter S. Thompson Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 204 h is is a timely reissue of Hunter S. Thompson's first novel, written in the late Fifties at the......