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GOING, GOING, GONDOLA Jonathan Keates on Venice's past glories

Michael Burleigh on Mussolini Simon Heffer on Wartime Spivs

John Adamson on Lepanto Frances Spalding unveils Whistler's Mother Nicholas Rankin recalls Waugh's Scoop

Britten * Bulwer Lytton * Belinskii Rebecca West in Mexico * Fergus Fleming on Ice

The Zanzibar Chest

[ICTION: Kenzaburo Oe, Hilary Mantel, Anita Brookner, Michel Houellebecq