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Succumbing To An Inferior Complexity

Anthony Daniels ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH by Chinua Achebe Heinemann, £10.95 W ole Soyinka once spoke of Chinua Achebe's 'unrelieved competence'. It seemed to me a peculiarly......

The Making Of A Member Of The Group

Anita Brookner HOW I GREW by Mary McCarthy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 M ary McCarthy has told the story of her terrible upbringing in another volume, the superb Memories of a......