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Spectator Book Of Tie Week

Wild Minds What Animals Really Think `At last, a penetrating, entertaining, and up-to-the- frelitIDS minute book on the minds of animals Wild Minds should fascinate anyone......

Poetry Gets The Last Laugh

William Scammell BLOODLINES by Fred D'Aguiar Chatto, f12.99, pp. 161 T he last big poem on black history was Derek Walcott's Omeros, which mixed up Homer with the textures of......

Chess Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Nigel Short THE LUZHIN DEFENSE by Vladimir Nabokov Penguin, £6.99, pp. 272 A Russian novel about a mad chess- player? It does not sound very promising. One can sympathise with......