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This year marks the 30th anniversary of Andrew Kötting’s great British film Gallivant. Gallivant—such a word! You’d expect a romp, a lark, a knockabout. All the fun of the fair. Kötting travels around

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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Berlin ShuffleTranslated by Philip Boehm256pp. Pushkin. £18.99. The exhumation of Alexander Boschwitz (1915–42) is one of the more pleasing literary stories of recent times.