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Against the American Grain, by Dwight Macdonald'. In a series of engaging essays, a razor-witted critic hews an assortment of U.S. cultural pretensions down to size.
Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. The most trenchant study to date of the strange writer in whose nightmarish parables of human alienation 20th century man has found a chilling portrait of himself.
The Conquest of London and The Middle Years, Vols. II and III of Henry James, by Leon Edel. A graceful and massive work (it will run to four volumes).
The Cape Cod Lighter, by John O'Hara. America's most celebrated short-story writer at work again in his old provincial stamping grounds—small-town New Jersey and Gibbsville, Pa.
Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. Fond impressions of life with the great impressionist, by his gifted son.
The Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. This first complete collection reveals the witty playwright not as the foppish caricature he seemed, but as the sad and profound fellow he was.
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