A LONDONER IN THE RENAISSANCE

MacCulloch admires Ackroyd's Thomas More BIOGRAPHY: Francis Bacon, the Sodomite: Paul Johnson worries

Simon Ward on Robert Bolt * Pocock on Prince Rupert Aubrey Beardsley * Matthew Arnold * Lord Berners * Christian Dior

MEMOIRS: Malcolm Bradbury catches Joseph Helier "' ~~~

Rhoda Koenig comforts Truman Capote

Niall Ferguson on 'Eddy'de Rothschild

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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS

Profumo on the Joys of Masochism Mavroleon on Psychoactive Drugs

FICTION: William Boyd back in Africa, Victoria Glendinning on Man and Mango?