RECENT & READABLE

Barabbas, by Paer Lagerkvist. The story of a reprieved cutthroat who was haunted to the end by the memory of Golgotha (TIME, Dec. 3).

Closing the Ring. Volume V of Winston Churchill's incomparable history of World War II (TIME, Nov. 26).

Gods, Graves & Scholars, by C. W. Ceram. The big men and big moments of archeology; proof that digging can be dramatic (TIME, Nov. 12).

The Selected Letters of Henry Adams, edited by Newton Arvin. Memorable commentary, mostly disenchanted, on two generations of U.S. life, by a brilliant and introspective man who grew up thinking that the presidency was a family trade (TIME, Nov. 12).

The Conformist, by Alberto Moravia. Italy's best novelist unravels the charac ter of a Fascist (TIME, Nov.12).

LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man. A vividly illustrated panorama of a thou sand years of Western civilization (TIME, Nov.' 5)

Katherine Mansfield's Letters to John Middleton Murry. Touchingly intimate self-revelations by the author of some of the finest short stories in the language (TIME, Nov. 5).

The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene. A shocker about an adulterous love that leads to sainthood -- in one of the most controversial endings of the year (TIME, Oct. 29).

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