RECENT & READABLE

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, by Car son McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June 4).

Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a leader of the Polish underground who refused to "confess" despite 70 days &nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June 4).

Some Notes on Lifemanship, by Stephen Potter. How to be a conversational cad (TIME, June 4).

Man and Boy, by Wright Morris. A quiet little horror story about Mother & Father Ormsby and their average bad marriage (TIME, May 28).

Inuk, by Roger Buliard. Recollections of a missionary priest who spent 15 years among the Eskimos (TIME, May 28).

Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar and High Sierra (TIME, May 21).

Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME, May 14).

Dominations and Powers, by George Santayana. Gracefully written skepticism by one of the moral gadflies of the 20th Century; the last volume Philosopher Santayana expects to publish in his life time (TIME, May 7).

Nones, by W. H. Auden. Eighty-one pages of assertions, most of them witty, by a major modern poet turned devout (TIME, April 30).

Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson. An eerie story of a young girl's descent into schizophrenia (TIME, April 23).

The Miraculous Barber, by Marcel Ayme. A dry and mocking satire of French life on the eve of World War II by one of the best contemporary French novelists (TIME, April 23).

The Morning Watch, by James Agee. Good Friday's overwhelming effect on a twelve-year-old (TIME, April 23).

The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April 9).

Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel Eng lish characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March 26).

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