9 FEBRUARY 1974, page 20

A Man Of Influence

Alastair Buchan Kissinger: The Uses of Power David Landau (Robson Books £3.25) The rise of Henry Kissinger in the past five years, from a professorship at Harvard to the status......

Crime Compendium

The pressure of other work, and the presence at The Spectator of a literary editor who does not have the appreciation of detective and thriller fiction required to harass me for......

A Little Glow

J.I.M. Stewart The Born Exile: George Gissing Gillian Tin dall (Temple Smith £4.00) "Gissing," Virginia Woolf wrote, "is one ° f those imperfect novelists through whose books......