Observer, Feb 17, 1980. p.38

Peter Conrad reviews Out of the Way: Later essays by Colin MacInnes:

‘The essays endlessly rail against the Anglo-Saxon hegemony, pleading for a multi-racial Britain or for devolution around the kingdom’s Celtic fringe. The Celt, a displaced Latin, is for MacInnes automatically a bohemian. The same racial mythology directs his racial judgement. James Baldwin’s novel Giovanni’s Room – fatally recommended by Jeremy Thorpe to Norman Scott – embodies, MacInnes says, the ‘distinction between the Latin-Pagan and the Anglo-Saxon temperaments’.