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Don Cupitt THE APE THAT SPOKE by John McCrone Macmillan, f13.95, pp.231 I t is so hard to imagine the first origins of mind and language that in antiquity they were often......

Waxworks In Moscow

Beatrice Wilson THE RED CABBAGE CAFE by Jonathan Treitel Bloomsbury, £13.99, pp. 183 e's a novelist, of course. Not that he's published much at all. He can write the beginnings......