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DECEMBER 2007 / JANUARY 2008

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MODESTY FORBIDS Jeremy Lewis on the Secret History of Literature

John Gray analyses Freud Peter Washington stalks Saki Umberto Eco’s Ugliness

Anton La Guardia on King Hussein Leslie Mitchell on the British Empire Raymond Seitz on the Pilgrims’ Return

Revel in Hughes’s Letters ★★ Bask in Mahon’s Poetry Paint with Plath ★★ Cackle with Coward Stubbs, Glorious Stubbs

The Siege of Mecca ★★ Cold War Chess Clarissa Eden Remembers

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