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The Shorter The Better

James Buchan THE RUNAWAY SOUL by Harold Brodkey Cape, £15.99, pp. 835 resented with this big, solemn and industrially difficult first novel, British critics have either giggled......

Tulips In A Jug

Their carriage and comportment are superb, Just so: they're ready for the camera's eye, The girls all sisters, cousins. Here they offer A stopped bright fragment of their......