■ May Books: Acupuncture was inevitable. Marc Duke is the author (Pyramid House, $6.95). . . . No Name in the Street is James Baldwin’s latest nonfiction effort (Dial, $5.95). . . . The Service, widely heralded memoirs of ex-boss of German intelligence General Reinhard Gehlen, is sure to be one of the most discussed books to come out of WWII (World, $10). From the same house, sportswriter Barney Nagler surveys the awesome, sad career of Joe Louis in Brown Bomber ($7.95). . . . Father Andrew Greeley, now batting them out at the rate of one or more a year, profiles his own in That Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish (Quadrangle, $8.95).
ure—convincingly specified—but also the recognition that the latter group has been producing, as it were, a different kind of thing: “Altogether lacking in the power to educate and transform.” Critically speaking, it is simply impossible to say: “Hemingway and Bellow.”
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