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You Will Oscar, You Will

Mark Shivas BERTOLUCCI BY BERTOLUCCI Plexus, £15.95, pp. 303 I s it, or are these, the Last Emperor's New Clothes? Books of interviews with film directors are legion, some of......

Getting Rid Of The Garbage

Anita Brookner 'S'. A NOVEL by John Updike Deutsch, £10.95, pp. 244 B y an enormous mischance John Up- dike's new novel explores the same subject as that dealt with by Ruth......

Portrait Of The Writer As A Young Artist

Francis King BLUEBEARD by Kurt Vonnegut Cape, £10.95, pp. 300 0 ne of the oddest features of both the economic and artistic history of this cen- tury has been the way in which......