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The Law Is An Ass, And So Is The Author

Eric Jacobs A FROLIC OF HIS OWN by William Gaddis Viking £16, pp. 586 R eviewing a novel has the advantage over reviewing a film or a play that in dire cases you can fast......

Insomnia

The moon woke me, the pocked and chalky moon that floods the garden with its silvery blue and cuts the shadow of one leafy branch across this bed of ours as if on to bright......

The Volume Of His Volumes

Richard 011ard ANTHONY POWELL: A BIBLIOGRAPHY by George Lilley St Paul's Bibliographies, 145, pp. INVESTIGATING POWELL'S 'A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME' by Isabelle Joyau......