31 OCTOBER 1998, page 50

All Fortune Cookies To Him

Michael Hulse DAMASCUS GATE by Robert Stone Picador, £16.99, pp. 500 T his new novel by the author of Dog Soldiers is so unsatisfying that the enthusi- asm with which it has......

Words And Silences

William Scammell VARIOUS VOICES by Harold Pinter Faber, £16.99, pp. 205 H arold Pinter is far and away our greatest living playwright. What the plays tell us is that wherever......

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