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“... and me, when the church is burnt down. Perhaps now we may argue reasonably with our women.’ Anthony Powell’s well-judged put-down of Hemingway’s plodding propaganda film Spanish Earth is placed after the author’s own puff for it; Anthony Blunt’s Spectator attack on Picasso – whose war etchings registered ...”

“... in the files is hilarious. In June 1989 Greene received the following letter from a man called Peters: Getting on three months ago, I posted my passport to you via your publisher Max Reinhardt, for safe-keeping. As this was from Volos in Greece, and furthermore the envelope did not carry a stamp, there existed the possibility that you know nothing about ...”

“... is that of the close-mouthed and knowing initiate, while Bellow treats Strauss as if he were like Anthony Powell’s Sillery: no more than a don with a number of influential ex-pupils. When Alexandre Kojève is mentioned a few pages later, he is drawn in the same rather lifeless terms as ‘the famous Hegelian and high official who had educated a whole ...”