David Sexton
William Empson was our last great poet- critic. He published no book in his last 25 years but we have now had three collec- tions of his matchless work since his death,......
Charles Glass
I have to thank Bruce Palling, now the Independent's man in New Delhi, for intro- ducing me to the works of Norman Lewis and, recently, to Lewis himself. Lewis's newest book of......
Antony Lambton
The most enjoyable book I read this year was James Lees-Milne's The Enigmatic Edwardian, the life of Lord Esher. He turned a man who has long been a shadow into a comprehensible......
Taki
For reasons known only to me I have chosen to read mostly prison memoirs throughout the year. Needless to say, Against All Hope, by Armando Valla- dares, the Cuban poet was the......
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