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TABLET Picking up the pieces

Anatol Lieven looks towards Moscow Gorbachev’s eclipse Michael Bourdeaux on his missed chances

Europe on track The Community passes the Maastricht test

After the martyrs Peter Hebblethwaite reflects on the Synod

John of the Cross Raimon Panikkar and Ruth Burrows Graham Forbes visits El Salvador David Edwards reviews Don Cupitt

Patrick White’s Bethlehem tales

Life at King Street Cloisters HarperCollins’s glittering prizes