12 MARCH 1988, page 34

The Message Was Hardly Even Medium

Peter Levi LETTERS OF MARSHALL McLUHAN selected and edited by Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan and William Toye OUP, £25 T here are many kinds of book review; this one is meant......

A Lyric On Idleness

Susanna Johnston THE COLOUR OF RAIN by Emma Tennant Faber, £3.95 T he Colour of Rain, when it first came out in 1963 under the pseudonym of Catherine Aydy, caused a curfuffle.......