19 OCTOBER 1985, page 31

A Sentimental Intellectual

Duncan Fallowell OCCASIONAL PROSE by Mary McCarthy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 S ome of this is unreadable, for example the pieces on Solzhenitsyn, Calvino, Joan Didion, and......

Man Of Many Parts

Peter Jenkins BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE by Alec Guinness Humish Hamilton, £9.95 W e think of Sir Alec Guinness as the most under-actorly actor of our times. We type-cast him in our......