Oct 16 1988: 21

‘Ninnies and nasties who show us the way’

Kingsley Amis reviews ‘Intellectuals’ as ‘a valuable and entertaining book…his revelation of how thoroughly and multifariously nasty and foolish these fellows were, though by the time we reach Fassbinder and the black protest writer JB one has perhaps supped too full with horrors to be much astonished’.