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Existential Encounters John Gray science & sorcery John Banville tyranny of architects Jonathan Meades empson & the buddhas Kevin Jackson stained glass modernist Tanya Harrod zweig’s summer with roth Stoddard Martin www.literaryreview.co.uk china’s one-child policy • renaissance lisbon • indian icons david astor observed • a fake’s progress • great british losers