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JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. In A.D. 361, Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate took an 18-month back step to the Hellenic gods, using all his power to destroy Christianity. In this ingenious historical novel, Gore Vidal brings his wit and urbanity to his subject, and if he does not quite capture the spirit of this elegant hero, his novel is still entertaining and convincing.
NEW NEGRO POETS: U.S.A., edited by Langston Hughes. These 37 young Negro poets seem to have read their Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell, along with everyone else. The result is highly personal verse, much of it good, more of it promising.
A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passe. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of all the degree to which he fooled himself about the rich and glamorous, who, he thought, virtually kidnaped him into their world.
THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carrè. Two earlier thrillers by the author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold are reissued in one volume. The better one is also set in the Cold and has some of the same characters.
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