25 AUGUST 1973, page 18

Richard Luckett On Mumford And Letting Life Flower

Lewis Mumford is now in his seventy-eighth Year. He has chosen to round off his new selection from his miscellaneous writings and addresses* with a talk given at a symposium......

The Old Young Man

Peter Ackroyd The Town And The City Jack Kerouac (Quartet 0.95) The image of prophet and ageing hipster is not a happy one, and I have always imagined 'that Kerouac was weary......