Editors' Choice

FICTION: Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie The Ink Truck, William Kennedy Mr. Noon, D.H. Lawrence sb Say Goodbye to Sam, Michael J. Arlen Young Hearts Crying, Richard Yates

NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor sbFinding the Center, V.S. Naipaul sb "The Good War," Studs Terkel sbThe Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser sb Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor