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The Non-conformist Vision

James Simmons WRITING TO THE MOMENT: SELECTED ESSAYS 1980-1996 by Tom Paulin Faber, £16.99, pp. 318 T om Paulin is an honorary Irish poet by virtue of having spent his......

It's The Way He Tells Them

Blair Worden THE SENSE OF REALITY by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy Chatto, £20, pp. 277 H ow do libraries and bookshops decide where to position Isaiah Berlin's books? He......

In The Country Of The Camel

Simon Courtauld THE LAST OF THE BEDU by Michael Asher Viking, £20, pp. 298 THE DANAKIL DIARY by Wilfred Thesiger HarperCollins, £18, pp. 214 T he first problem with the Bedu is......