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Embracing The Impenitent Thief

David Caute GENET by Edmund White Chatto, f25, pp. 820 I first encountered Genet by way of Sartre's marathonic study of a petty thief and devil's disciple cursed by genius to......

The Traitor Who Remained Loyal

Oleg Gordievsky DEADLY ILLUSIONS by John Costello and Oleg Tsarev Century, £18.99, pp. 538 T his book is about the most senior KGB defector in the history of that organisation —......