12 MARCH 1977, page 27

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......

Rag Time

Peter Ackroyd The Caves of Alienation Stuart Evans (Hutchinson £4.95) God Perkins David Pownall (Faber and Faber £3.95). Villa Triste Patrick Modiano (Gollancz £4.50) The Caves......