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A Gnat

writing in ice-cream Peter Levi RILKE: A LIFE by Wolfgang Leppmann Lutterworth Press, £17.50 A critic is expected to have hard edges. The most ferocious young critics of each......

A Little Touch Of Larry On The Night?

Mark Amory YEAR OF THE KING by Antony Sher ChattolHogarth, £10.95 T he publishers have been lucky. Antony Sher had been approached to write and illustrate a book about his next......