17 MAY 1968, page 14

The Drama-game Books

JOHN HOLLOWAY To the detriment of bookish critics, what drama brings into question is in the end not literature at all, but reality. It cannot but create a society and stylise......

Toil And Trouble

JOHN ROWAN WILSON The Double Helix James D. Watson (Weiden- feld and Nicolson 35s) Other people's obsessions may be either very dull or very interesting according to the skill......

New Novels

Dark laughs MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH War Memorial Martin Russ (Michael Joseph 25s) The Looming Shadow Legson Kayira (Long- mans 21s) The Klansman William Bradford Huie W. H. Allen......