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Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.

Other articles by this contributor:

No Tricks · Raymond Carver

Complicated Detours · Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips

Flinch Wince Jerk Shirk · Christine Brooke-Rose

‘It’s the way people like us don’t talk’ · Andrew Motion’s Boyhood

Maximum Assistance from Good Cooking, Good Clothes, Good Drink · Auden’s Shakespeare

Our Muddy Vesture · Frank Kermode watches Pacino’s Merchant of Venice

First Pitch · Marianne Moore

Nutmegged · The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis.