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Culture And Politics

Joseph Lee Europe since 1870. An International History James Joll (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.20) Well-established conventions within the historical guild govern general......

A Fatal Imagination

Peter Cotes A Pin to See the Peepshow F. Tennyson Jesse (Heinemann £2.75). Desmond MacCarthy once pronounced F. Tennyson Jesse to be the most notable of all those writers who......

Crime Compendium

Many American reviewers have compared Robert Littell's The Defection of A. J. Lewinter (Hodder and Stoughton, e2.40) to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. The comparison is......