[Randex]Lives relived for modern times


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It takes a genius to boil down a life to its barest bones and sup devilishly on the marrow. In Literary Lives (Bloomsbury, £9.99/9.49) Edward Sorel’s cartoons concisely caricature the ruthless egos of ten great writers from Tolstoy to Mailer by way of Ayn Rand, Proust and — devastatingly — Lillian Hellman.

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