22 JULY 1966, page 30

Failure On The Left

WASHINGTON LETTER By ARNOLD BEICHMAN T HE most serious radical intellectual and political writer in America today by far is Irving Howe, literary critic, professor of English at......

Hero Of Heroes?

Gordon : Martyr and Misfit. By Anthony Nutting. (Constable, 35s.) `ALt_ that the flesh admires is doomed. . . . Cursed is the man who makes the flesh his arm. . . . As......