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The Slaying Of A Hypothesis By An Ugly Fact

Anthony Howard FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT by Christopher Hitchens Verso, £19.95, pp. 353 O f all contemporary transatlantic com- mentators Christopher Hitchens tends to provoke......

Glasgow Belongs To Him

George McKay Brown THE LIGHTS BELOW by Carl MacDougall Secicer & Warburg, £7.99, pp. 243 A lecturer used to wonder, during our English Literature class, why a great, tumultuous......

There Is A Tide In The Affairs Of Men And

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