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A Great Painter's Likeness Perfectly Caught

Sebastian Smee GOYA by Robert Hughes Hamill, £20, pp. 429, ISBN 1843430541 `Self-portrait in the Studio' (detail), 1790-95, (Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Aries de San......

Ideas Received Or Rejected

James Delingpole I'm LEAVING YOU SIMON, You DISGUST ME . . by William Donaldson Weidenfeld, £9.99, pp. 272, ISBN 03043657501 u ntil I read his enthralling account of what it's......