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The Thompson Gun

Vietnam. Edited by Marvin E. Gettleman. (Pen- guin Special, 8s. 6d.) 'PEOPLE'S war' or 'people's liberation war' are the Communist names applied to a novel form of warfare which......

After God Departs

Poets of Reality. By J. Hillis Miller. (Harvard/ O.U.P., 48s.) DYLAN THOMAS has been described as a child with a beer bottle stuck in his mouth, an apocalyptic seer, a heretic......

The Artist As Bourgeois

By TONY TANNER I N most people's mind: the name of halo Svevo will immediately evoke memories of the first chapter of Confessions of Zeno—`The Last Cigarette.' 'I thought: "As......