Looking at Giacometti, by David Sylvester (Pimlico, £12.50 in UK)"Memory is short, very short," Giacometti said in an interviewSat Jan 13 1996 - 00:00
MS TEMPLE BARDEVELOPMENT is a positive word, even a hopeful one or at least it should be, with its implied promise of improvement.Thu Jan 11 1996 - 00:00
A disarming look at the reality of warIT must be the ugliest of ironies but the horrors of war consistently produce haunting proseWed Jan 10 1996 - 00:00
The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono (Harvill, £5.99)In this famous allegorical fable, the narrator recalls a long journey made on foot through Provence some 40 years earlierSat Jan 06 1996 - 00:00
A curious case of historyMYSTERY and intrigue certainly featured strongly in the chapter of 19th-century French history known as the Panama Canal Scandal…Sat Jan 06 1996 - 00:00
A maverick for the milleniumIN a shrinking world increasingly bereft of original imaginations, the British writer JThu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00