UNQUIET NIGHT (122 pp.)—Albrechf Goes—Houghfon Mifflin ($2.25). “Heil Hitler, padre! . . . Let’s skip all the phony piety, shall we? When a man deserts he’s asking for all he gets ...

ADAM, WHERE ART THOU? (176 pp.)—Heinrich Böll−Criterion ($3). This book qualifies as the German Naked and the Dead on the literary principle of silt by association. Author Böll, 37 ...

Kehlmann's "The Director" is a story of artistic compromise. Some of its scenes are inspired by his father's life under ...

Many early-twentieth-century ... books and collections of fairy tales and folklore, the new method was at first only cautiously used in books concerned with color theory. Authors such as the ...

“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short,” wrote Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher of the 19th century. People are living longer than they did ...