SEPTEMBER 2002

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED

Brenda Maddox on Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald

John Bayley adores Alexander Pushkin

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J Mordaunt Crook admires Christopher Wren 0-mPeter Washington scolds the Angry Young Men F---s& r

Norman Stone on Hobsbawm's Choice Bryan Appleyard on the Human Condition

JESSICA MANN MEETS OLIVER SACKS Donald Rayfield o n Amis's Stalin Robert Blake on Wilson's Victorians

The Buddha and the Sahibs * The British and their Slaves

/ FICTION: John Banville, William Trevor, A S Byatt, Irvine Welsh... , L