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THE NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NO. 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. In the precarious business of launching a new literary periodical, Editor Solotaroff aims midway between big names and big, unheralded promise. One highlight: Philip Roth's Jewish Blues, the best Jewish-family story since Salinger's Franny and Zooey.
STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. The story of one man who risked his own life in an effort to take Hitler's, and the unlucky chance that caused him to fail.
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come.
GOG, by Andrew Sinclair. A weird, often wildly wonderful parable about a giant who makes a pilgrimage through history in search of himself.
RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. An appreciation and lament for the poet by friends and admirers who benefited most from his life and work.
AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty is told through the personal tragedy of the likable last heads of the Russian ruling family.
BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A splendid evocation of the life and times of the foppish young British artist whose decadent eccentricity and extraordinary style have today won him belated recognition as one of the most fabulous of all the Victorians.
RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair.
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along the way.
NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. This intelligent if somewhat unyielding study of all Vladimir Nabokov's literary production firmly consolidates his claim to succeed James Joyce as the Old Artificer of English.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Chosen, Potok (2)
3. The Eighth Day, Wilder (3)
4. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart
5. A Night of Watching, Arnold (4)
6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (7)
7. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (10)
8. Washington, D.C., Vidal (6)
9. Topaz, Uris
10. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (8)
NONFICTION
1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (3)
2. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)
3. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (10)
4. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)
5. Incredible Victory, Lord (6)
6. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (4)
7. The Lawyers, Mayer (5)
8. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (7)
9. The Fall of Japan, Craig
10. Everything But Money, Levenson (8)
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