Volume 42, Number 10 · June 8, 1995
Kicking the Air
By Denis Donoghue
How Late it Was, How Late
by James Kelman
Norton, 374 pp., $21.00
The Dead School
by Patrick McCabe
Dial Press, 286 pp., $21.95
Walking the Dog and Other Stories
by Bernard MacLaverty
Norton, 198 pp., $20.00
In 1957 the English social critic Richard Hoggart published The Uses of Literacy, subtitled Aspects of Working-Class Life, with Special Reference to Publications and Entertainments. His aim was to describe modern English working-class culture on the evidence of his own experience and of the materials, printed or not, devised for the instruction and diversion of that class. His conclusions were measured:
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