Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt contributed two remarkable chronicles last year to TIME. In a January cover story, he reported on a 25,000-mile odyssey that he took to meet with "children of war" from Northern Ireland, Israel and the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Six months later, during the Israeli siege of Beirut, Rosenblatt returned to Lebanon to seek out several of the Palestinian children he had talked to earlier. His journal of that search appeared in July. The two accounts, which won the 1982 George Polk Award for magazine reporting, now form the core of Children of War, just published by Anchor Press/Doubleday to wide critical acclaim. Says Rosenblatt: "The book is also the story of doing the story: my feelings, reactions and worries about what I was seeing, my meditations on children and on war in general."

In addition to Rosenblatt, two other TIME staff members have recently published books. One is Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a close friend of Dick Cavett's since college days and a writer and producer of many of his TV shows. Porterfield collaborated with Cavett on the entertainer's latest volume of sharply observed portraits and reminiscences, Eye on Cavett. "I was actually there when many of the events took place," says Porterfield. "I even carry some of the same scars." Published by Arbor House, the work is the second joint effort by Porterfield and Cavett; the first, Cavett, was a bestseller in 1974.

Associate Editor Patricia Blake's latest book is the result of her collaboration on four anthologies of Russian prose and poetry in English with the late British translator and critic Max Hayward. Blake has now edited and written a long introductory essay for a collection of Hayward's articles, Writers in Russia 1917-1978, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Two more TIME staff members have books that will be available next month. Contributor Richard Schickel's Cary Grant: A Celebration (Little, Brown) is a long essay on Grant's film career and the creation of his screen personality. Associate Editor Walter Isaacson's Pro and Con (Putnam) is subtitled Both Sides of Dozens of Unsettled and Unsettling Arguments, and consists of 60 chapters on controversies large and small from abortion to creationism to baseball's designated-hitter rule. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.