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Reviewing reviews of reviews — where will it all end? 

In Lives in Writing, David Lodge writes about Pico Iyer writing about Graham Greene, and about Martin Stannard writing about Muriel Spark, and so on...

From left to right: Graham Greene, Muriel Spark and H.G. Wells [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

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