27 JULY 1991, page 29

Bombs And Spies

Robert Cecil THE BUTCHER'S EMBRACE: THE PHILBY CONSPIRATORS IN WASHINGTON by Verne W. Newton Macdonald, £14.95, pp. 448 C an there be scope for yet another book about the......

An Innate Sense Of Superiority

Philip Glazebrook RITES:A CHILDHOOD IN GUATEMALA by Victor Perera Eland Books, £6.99, pp. 194 A n interesting self-portrait full of con- flicting elements emerges from this......

Correction

We apologise to Simon Curtis, whose poem 'Ivanhoe NSW' was misprinted in the issue of 6 July. The 17th line should have read 'a sand-plume unfurls in slow motion, like smoke'.......