12 MARCH 1977, page 26

Inflation

Hilary Spurling How It Was Mary Welsh Hemingway (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.95) Edmund() Desnoes, in his sad and delicately equivocal novel Ineonsolabk Men tories, describes a......

Chinese Boxes

Edmund Leach About Chinese Women Julia Kristeva (Marion Boyars . £5.95) We all of us need to have concrete images for our fantasies of heaven and hell, and ever since Marco Polo......