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An Awkward Tango

Tony Gould BAD TIMES IN BUENOS AIRES by Miranda France Weidenfeld, £18.99, pp. 209 M iranda France was awarded The Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for travel writing in......

Art In A Cold Climate

William Joll PATRICK PROCKTOR by John McEwen Scolar Press, £25, pp. 96 N o one familiar with the painters who have lived and exhibited in London in the last 40 years could fail......

The Sublime And The Ridiculous

Frank Kermode LAUGHTER AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS by Michael Screech Penguin, £30, pp. 328 M ichael Screech, a world authority on Rabelais, Erasmus, Montaigne — in fact on the......