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Books

A hungry black cat James Buchan JAMES BALDWIN: ARTIST ON FIRE by W. J. Weatherby Michael Joseph, f17.99, pp. 412 E ven when nobody much 'was reading his books, James Baldwin......

A Sense Of Belonging Nowhere

Patrick Marnham FINDING CONNECTIONS by P. J. Kavanagh Hutchinson, .04.95, pp.216 I n a recent notice of this book an Irish reviewer commented, not without a trace of......

Reading Sagan By The Dordogne

To meet a phrase like 'pour tuer le temps' is to kill not just time but the film of usage that accretes on our words like the fur of algae mossing the stpnes of the Dordogne......