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A SPARK OF NATURE’S FIRE Allan Massie celebrates Robert Burns

Simon Sebag Montefiore on Bolshevik Looting Oleg Gordievsky on Russia Resurgent Justin Marozzi in Iraq ★★ Tom Holland in Babylon

Sontag’s Diaries ★★ Schlesinger’s Journals Arthur Miller’s Tale

John Gray: The Philosopher and the Wolf Ursula Le Guin: The Joy of Silence The First Sexologist

Archibald Wavell Saluted ★★ Paul Dirac Atomised Warren Buffett Exposed

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