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Your subscription will start with the October issue, just out. Lionel Trilling discusses pornography in relation to Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, the "shocking" novel that has still to find an English publisher. Michael Young looks ahead to 2033 A.D. and "The Rise of the Meritocracy". William H. Whyte (author of The Organisation Man) on "The City Eviscerated" and Richard Lowenthal on "Tito’s Gamble" are both thought-provoking. Frank ‘Norman (Prisoner J.F.N.1797 in our May issue) reveals "A Bit About Slang". A new long poem by Henry Reed (recently broadcast on the Third) and Gerd Ruge's "Conversations in Moscow" top up a sparkling number!
From the archive.org/details/sim_new-statesman_1958-09-27_56_1437/... Statesman 56, no. 17 (September 27, 1958), p. 412. The "new long poem" published in the October issue was Henry Reed's "The Auction Sale."