JOHN CAREY John Carey is former Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, and a former judge of the Booker Prize, Britain's top literary award. His latest book What Good Are The Arts? (Faber, £7.99) has ruffled a few opera-lovers' feathers by arguing that high art, like Wagner, is not superior to low art, like the TV soap Crossroads.
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