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...years late, Christianity is becoming all the rage. Everybody is going to church, talking about God, and trying not to talk about Strontium 90. Kirkegaard is out in paperback, and Aristotle is out in left field. President Pusey has announced the importance of the Divinity School, while Billy Graham converts thousands in Madison Square Garden...
OVID'S THE ART OF LOVE (206 pp.)-translated by Rolfe Humphries-Indiana University ($3.75; paperback...
...Capote as a fellow artist. "I have my own telephone," boasted the artist. "Among your writers, the powerful one is A. J. Cronin. But Sholikov is more powerful, yes?" The scene in which the Russian is afraid-and afraid to admit he is afraid-to accept a few paperback books from a brother artist is a merciless ly cut cameo of intellectual life in Russia...
...maneuvers her father's two mistresses to meet her own needs and causes the suicide of one, quickly became France's biggest bestseller (450,000 copies). Translated into 14 languages, it won the Prix des Critiques, touched off a sizzling French literary controversy and, in one U.S. paperback edition alone, sold an astonishing 1,000,000 copies in one month...
Also left behind, but then unpublished, was his last work, a translation of still another of the world's great books. The Great Dialogues of Plato have now been made available to U.S. readers in a paperback edition, tailored neatly for the pocket as well as the pocketbook. Classicists may continue to give their allegiance to the translation of Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), but the plain reader will find that Rouse has given him a great legacy of philosophy in language that hews to simple clarity...