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Turkish But No Delight

Philip Glazebrook THE BLACK BOOK by Orhan Pamuk Faber, £14.99, pp. 400 I n so far as this sprawl of a novel is a nar- rative at all it tells the story of a Turkish lawyer's......

Moving In The Best Circles

Bruno Kavanagh THE DIVINE COMEDY translated by Allen Mandelbaum Everyman, £14.99, pp. 250 W hichever way you slice it, try to explain Dante's cosmology en bref and you can end......