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End of the Game by Julio Cortazar(Pantheon, $5.95) This collection of Julio Cortazar's stories is the first book of his that I have read, but I think I am not out of chronological order. His two novels, The Winners and Hopscotch, translated and published here in 1965 and 1966, were, I infer from book jackets, written after he wrote three volumes of stories. This latest book to be translated here is drawn from those three earliest books. READ MORE >>

What makes movies a great popular art form is that certain artists can, at moments in their lives, reach out and unify the audience—educated and uneducated—in a shared response. The tragedy in the history of movies is that those who have this capacity are usually prevented from doing so. The mass audience gets its big empty movies full of meaningless action; the arthouse audience gets its studies of small action and large inaction loaded with meaning. READ MORE >>

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The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford(Harcourt, Brace and World; $8.95)  Here comes Lewis Mumford again, sailing majestically down the river of time. Having illuminated the history of architecture and the phenomenon of cities (among other subjects) on previous voyages, he makes the journey once again out of different scholarly and humane concerns. Let him describe his new book himself. He wrote a sort of overture to it in a recent issue of the American Scholar, in which he said: READ MORE >>

The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (Harper & Row; $6.95)  READ MORE >>

In Cold Bloodby Truman Capote(Random House; $5.95)  READ MORE >>

    "Movies have now gone past the phase of prose narrative and     are coming nearer and nearer to poetry. I am trying to free my work     from certain constrictions--a story with a beginning, a development,     an ending. It should be more like a poem, with metre and cadence." READ MORE >>

My Autobiographyby Charles Chaplin(Simon and Schuster; $6.95)  In 1913 the manager of an English music-hall company, which had been touring the US and was laying off for a week in Philadelphia, received a telegram from the New York office of a film company: "Is there a man named Chaffin in your company or something like that?" If so, the man was to communicate with the sender. READ MORE >>

A Moveable Feastby Ernest Hemingway(Scribner's; $4.95)  READ MORE >>

The Groupby Mary McCarthy(Harcourt, Brace & World; $5.95) Mary McCarthy is both representative and sui generis. An intellectual child of the thirties, she has long been concerned with matters that concern many of us; and her total range of interests, has been wider than any other American woman writer's of her time. READ MORE >>