"Always the essays are strong and authoritative..."

"These aren't simply essays in criticism. The pieces are about how things actually work: why they are what they are."

"These days, every university seems to have a chair in Big Brother studies. But back in the Sixties, treating popular culture and mass entertainment as worthy of intelligent, passionate analysis was something of a revolutionary idea... These might be archive pieces, but they deserve to be rediscovered and embraced by the critics of today."

"Arts in Society draws on an extraordinary galaxy
of talent... (it) quickly became a classic... immensely enjoyable...
reaches out to a broad audience rather than a specialist audience; (giving) the maverick view."

First published in 1977, this path-breaking collection of essays on modern culture from New Society magazine retains all its vigour and verve...

The sheer quality of writing, and of thinking, keeps them fresh.

Boyd Tonkin