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Stopping Short Of Omniscience

Sebastian Smee READING CHEKHOV by Janet Malcolm Granta..£13.99, pp. 210, ISBN 1862075867 A lthough Janet Malcolm has written in depth about an extraordinary range of subjects,......

Feeling Good In One's Skin

Ferdinand Mount RESPECT: THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER IN AN AGE OF INEQUALITY by Richard Sennett Allen Lane, 120, pp. 288, ISBN 071399617X O f all the unfashionable ideas you can......

Among The Least Respectable People You Can Think Of. Mafia

dons demand — and get — rispetto. The most ruthless villains do not neglect to 'pay their last respects' to other villains. On our own mean streets gangstas and rappers insist......