RECENT & READABLE

London Calling North Pole, by H. J. Giskes. A German World War II counter spy tells how he managed to fool the British secret service (TIME, Aug. 10).

Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Ayme. Good, and reasonably clean, fun (TIME, Aug. 10).

Torment, by Perez Galdos. A Spanish classic, by a novelist who has been called Spain's Balzac; published in the U.S. for the first time (TIME, Aug. 3).

I Was a Captive in Korea, by Philip Deane. A war correspondent's vivid ac count of 33 months of Communist imprisonment (TIME, July 27).

Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell. Sardonic stories by an aging philosopher turned fictioneer (TIME, July 20).

White Hunter, Black Heart, by Peter Viertel. A green-hills-of-Africa novel by a Hollywood scriptwriter turned to philosophizing (TIME, July 20).

The Bridges at Toko-ri, by James A. Michener. A short novel about a carrier pilot who found out why he was fighting in Korea (TIME, July 13).

The Conservative Mind, by Russell Kirk. A sympathetic survey of the philosophy which underlies the conservative position, from Edmund Burke and John to the present (TIME, July 6).

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