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Licence to thrill

From LRB, a review of Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore; and Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. From TLS, the finest pen of his age, a giant of natural history, geometry and art: Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon deserves to be restored. Why doesn't anyone read Dante's Paradiso? Robert P. Baird wants to know. Chick-lit? Marriage-obsessed? Jane Austen adaptations have a lot to answer for. A review of Henry James: The Mature Master by Sheldon M. Novick. Can Zadie Smith salvage the short story? It’s often said that the short story is :in crisis"; unfortunately The Book of Other People, a colourful tome containing 23 character-driven tales by hip youngish writers, will not return it to glory. Licence to thrill: A look at how Ian Fleming’s James Bond books articulate the beliefs and fears of post-war Britain.