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America's Johnson

Jeffrey Meyers Edmund Wilson's America George Douglas George Douglas (University of Kentucky Press £19.55) E dmund Wilson's interests ranged from i the historical and......

Closet Explorer

Bel Mooney Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism John Updike (Andre Deutsch £21) A good review is, amongst other things, ra-a little anthology,' he says, and the thought is at......