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The Blind Eye

Who Lost an American? By Nelson Algren. (Deutsch, 25s.) I'M now prepared to believe that the most im- portant literary event in the lives of Norman Mailer and Nelson Algren is......

Muse Into Mentor?

The Dream and the Task : Literature and Morals in the Culture of Today. By Graham Hough. (Duckworth, 15s.) Experience into Words : Essays on Poetry. By D. W. Harding. (Chatto......