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Confined Between Hard Covers

Jeremy Lewis THE WIT OF THE SPECTATOR Edited by Christopher Howse Century, £12.95, pp. 224 F ew things are more off-putting than the self-proclaimedly humorous or witty — as......

The Politics Of Truth

Denis Hills THE USES OF ADVERSITY by Timothy Garton Ash Granta Books, £13.95, pp.305 I n these articles and essays written be- tween 1983 and 1989, Ash examines the Communist......