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A Liberal Icon

Maurice Cowling ISAIAH BERLIN by Michael Ignatieff Chatto, £20, pp. 338 I saiah Berlin was born in Tsarist Russia in 1909 and was brought up by adoring par- ents in Riga,......

The Flash Of The Knife

Anne Chisholm THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER by Janet Malcolm Papermac, .E12, pp. 176 I t is not easy for other journalists and biographers to know what to make of Janet......