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Crime Waves

Patrick Cosg rave The other day Hutchinson gave a very pleasant lunch for one of their authors, the crime novelist Ruth Rendell. The occasion was the publication in Arrow......

At Last

John Terraine Douglas Haig E.K.G. Sixsmith (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £5.95) There is no more controversial name than Haig in British military history—a fact that tells us more......

Flack

Peter Conrad Marxism and Literary Criticism Terry Eagleton (Methuen £2.50) Radical chic has lately transferred itself from the boutiques to the academies. What began as a......