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From A Juicy Grave

Christopher Hawtree FROM THE UNCOLLECTED by Edmund Wilson Ohio University Press, £21, pp. 410 Now that his mind has enlarged into such a vast organisation, it's as if......

Find Out But Don't Believe

John Bayley THE FACULTY OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE by Yury Dombrovsky, translated by Alan Myers Harvill, £15.99, pp. 533 T ime: 1937. Following the death of Kirov, the boss of......

A Perspective Of Mantegna

The sword swings at the soldier's hip and on his knees the informer begs forgiveness of the martyr, who needs must stop and bless the man who broke a trust and brought him down......