The Narrows, by Ann Petry. Passion and violence between black and white in an unexpected setting: respectable Connecticut (TIME, Aug. 17).
Fabian of the Yard, by Robert Fabian. A brilliant former Scotland Yardman tells about his most interesting cases (TIME Aug. 17).
Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Aymé. Good and reasonably clean fun (TIME, Aug. 10).
Torment, by Pérez Galdós. A Spanish classic, by a novelist who has been called Spain’s Balzac; published in the U.S. for the first time (TIME, Aug. 3).
I Was a Captive in Korea, by Philip Deane. A war correspondent’s vivid account of 33 months of Communist imprisonment (TIME, July 27).
Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell. Sardonic stories by an aging philosopher turned fictioneer (TIME, July 20).
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