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In an interview, Norman Mailer provides a sketch of his early outlook, his alarm at the degeneration of American political life and his expectations for the future. (Original abstract-amended)

Discusses recent Larkin publications and comment, including his selected letters, a biography by Motion, a TV programme by Eagleton and an article in Race and Class by Newsinger. Larkin has been assailed and celebrated, often in inappropriate ways. He was not just a bigot, a foul mouth, a chauvinist, or any other modish personifier of 'insensitivity'. He was an artist and a thwarted fascist.

Reviews Noel Annan's, Our age: a portrait of a generation. (SJK)

Prior to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, there is a history of US collaboration with the Iraqi dictator. A permanent US presence in the Gulf has been a long term goal. Finds evidence for this in 1981 which envisaged the Desert Storm operation. Many Iranians remain convinced that the US actively encouraged Iraq's invasion of their country in 1980. (SJK)

Response to Hitchens' review of Larkin's letters and Andrew Motion's biography, NLR, 200, July/August 1993, with a reply. Newsinger sees no reason to depart from a principled political enmity to Larkin and all he stood for; Hitchens insists his comments were made in ironic mode.