14 APRIL 1979, page 23

Hack Pack

Benny Green Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table James R. Gaines (Harcourt Brace £8.40) The disproportionate attention lavished over the years on the......

Experiments

Francis King When I Whistle Shusaku Endo (Peter Owen E6.00) Of all Japanese novelists, Shusaku Endo is the most accessible to Western readers. This is not merely because he......