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The Cost Of Maintaining A Front

Hugh Cecil RICHARD ALDINGTON AND H.D: THE EARLY YEARS IN LETTERS edited by Caroline Zilboorg Indiana University Press, £25.50, pp. 237 R ichard Aldington, poet and man of......

Three Suicide Attempts, A Dozen Affairs, But Not The Whole

truth Peter Levi TSVETAEVA by Viktoria Schweitzer Harvill, £20, pp. 413 F or some 60 years Stalin and his heirs so suppressed and distorted information about writers (among many......

Mr And Mrs R And The Christmas Card List

Shall I cross them off? It's twenty years since we last met. Of course Mr R and I once thought we were made for each other — Oh that heart-stopping moment by the kitchen sink,......