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Whipped-in

Derek Marlowe De Sade: A Critical Biography Ronald Hayman (Constable £6.95) On 18 October 1763 a young French girl was offered forty-eight livres to put herself in the hands of......

Off-stage

Bryan Robertson Jasper Johns Michael Crichton (Thames & Hudson £15.00) At forty-eight, Johns is one of the most compulsively watchable of American artists. Back in the......