Volume 25, Number 4 · March 23, 1978
To the Sideshow
By Alison Lurie
Animals and Men: Their Relationship as Reflected in Western Art from Prehistory to the Present Day
by Kenneth Clark
William Morrow, 240 pp., $19.95
Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self
by Leslie Fiedler
Simon and Schuster, 367 pp., $12.95
A Fiedler Reader
by Leslie Fiedler
Stein and Day, 509 pp., $6.95 (paper)
In spite of the physical shrinkage and Howardjohnsonization of our cultural world, there is still a marked difference between the characteristic British and American intellectual styles. Of course a few English writers now affect a hyper-American manner—breathless, loud, personal, while some Americans (including many contributors to this journal) try for an English smoothness and balance.
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