The Way We Live Now — Bernard Levin

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Jonathan Cape, 1984, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap – Journalism – 267pp. ISBN 0224022725.

It was a great relief to many when in October 1982 Bernard Levin returned to the pages of The Times. In his eighteen months’ leave from regular journalism (during which he was alarmed to discover that he didn’t miss it) there were those less fortunate, some of them addicts of up to thirty years, left twitching with curiosity to know what he was thinking now.

Collected in The Way We Live Now, from Levin’s new weekly column in The Times which bears that headline, we find arguments for democracy, the rights of theatre critics, The Genius of Venice, Isaac Stern and Frank Lloyd Wright. There is condemnation for Mao, Kim Il Sung, writers’ conferences and euthanasia. Levin remains a defender of free speech even if, alas, it is the free speech of Michael Heseltine under fire from egg-throwers, even if it is that of the smoker against the tyranny of ASH.

Never failing to spring surprises, Levin pronounces the last minutes of E.T. to be as affecting as anything he has ever seen in a cinema, a theatre or even an opera house.

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