Joan Smith on Simone de Beauvoir's

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The World at Our Feet Europe: Martin Gilbert on the Dark Continent Russia: Beevor on the War * Tolstoy on Peter the Great Asia: Wheeler on Burma * Tree on New Guinea * Mirsky on Vietnam

The Glory ofNorman Lewis

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Kenneth Rose applauds King Tum-Tum Hugh Massingberd confronts Cannadine Mick Brown ponders the Prophet Gibran Edmund Dell reconsiders the Chancellors Fiction: Kelman, Brink, Chaudhuri, Hensher, Okri, Welsh... WARDEN SPARROW REMEMBERED * LOST CAMELS FOUND