22 APRIL 1978, page 24

The Last Act

Francis King Kalki Gore Vidal (Heinemann 24.50) Few imaginative writers have been able to add a cubit to their stature by taking thought; Gore Vidal is one of them. It is......

F.r. Leavis

Peter Ackroyd The death of Frank Raymond Leavis, at the age of eighty-two, marks the end of the last major phase in English literary criticism. His achievements as a polemicist......