RECENT & READABLE

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 lifetime (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).

A King's Story. The memoirs of the Duke of Windsor (TIME, April 16).

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).

Conjugal Love, by Alberto Moravia. A novel of the ecstasies and cruelties of married love; Moravia's best yet (TIME, March 26).

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