Early, doomed intimations
By Robert Low
Dullness in devil's details
Daring Herculean rescue
Trickle before the flood
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Miracle made in Sweden
A UK-US email correspondence between two fine writers contains enjoyably sharp literary gossip
Give Me Everything You have: On being Stalked / By James Lasdun / Jonathan Cape, £16.99
'New Yorker' staff writer Adam Gopnik pays nostalgic and erudite homage to cold and golden days
Robert Low admires the autobiography of "the world's most eminent Middle East historian"
A personal history of Jerusalem is vivid and informative