RECENT & READABLE

The Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, edited by Lesley Blanch. A saucy, intimate peek at Regency London's beaux and belles from the boudoir of the most celebrated courtesan of the day (TIME, June 27).

The Collected Stories, by Isaac Babel. Uncommonly moving tales of war, death, courage and ghetto life by an uncommonly gifted Odessa Jew (TIME, June 27).

Julius Caesar, by Alfred Duggan. An absorbing new portrait of the biggest Roman of them all, with fascinating sidelights on the pols and politics of ancient Rome (TIME, June 20).

The Dinner Party, by Gretchen Fin-letter. An entertaining martini of a novel with a lemon-twist of real wit about the more fashionable reaches of Commuter-land (TIME, June 20).

The Lonely Sky, by William Bridgeman and Jacqueline Hazard. The poetry of flight gets an exciting new jet-age laureate as Test Pilot Bridgeman tells what it feels like to rocket through space at 1,200 miles an hour (TIME, June 6).

Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, by Dylan Thomas. A prose epitaph from the legendary poet of Laugharne, containing a fragment of a novel and 20 other tales, all as panurgent, eloquent and unpredictable as the man himself (TIME, May 30).

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