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Libraries in the Ancient World By Lionel Casson  (Yale University Press, 177 pp., $22.95) READ MORE >>

Sappho: A Garland The Poems and Fragments of Sappho Translated by Jim Powell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 65 pp., $15) The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos By Peter Green (University of California Press, 274 pp., $22) READ MORE >>

Between Hell and Reason: Essays from the Resistance Paper Combat, 1944-1947 By Albert Camus Selected and translated by Alexandre de Gramont (University Press of New England, 189 pp., $35, $14.95 paper) The Human Race By Robert Antelme Translated by Jeffrey and Annie Mahler (Marlboro Press, 298 pp., $23.95) READ MORE >>

I. The species known as DWEM, which has only recently been isolated and identified, is already the focus of intense controversy. As usually happens to newly discovered species, it is even being broken down into subspecies; I am informed that a professor at a local university has recently offered a course in DWAM, that is, in Dead White American Males, with readings presumably in such writers as Thoreau, Emerson, and Mark Twain. I propose to discuss only the European type, and, in particular, its first appearance on the face of the planet. READ MORE >>

Ovid's Poetry of Exile Translated by David R. Slavitt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 256 pp., $32.60, $12.95 paper) The Last World By Christoph Ransmayr (Grove Weidenfeld, 240 pp., $18.95) READ MORE >>