All SoulsAll Souls by Javier Maras is a darkly humorous Oxford novel, newly available in Penguin Modern Classics. The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer who is desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth century cider tax. As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds