Books, Arts & Manners: Books of Interest

The Lime Twig, by John Hawkes (New Directions, $3.50). A short, brilliant novel that most resembles the scenario for a nightmare based on Brighton Rock.

Music of the Spheres, by Guy Murchie (Houghton, $6.95). An informal but incisive survey of the physical universe—full of anecdotes, analogies, diagrams, doodles—by the most remarkable collaboration of the year: a man of science and a man of imagination who occupy the same human hide and whose book proves, in spite of Sir Charles Snow’s warnings, that rapprochement between these two extremities of the forehead is not impossible, after all.

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The Lime Twig, by John Hawkes (New Directions, $3.50). A short, brilliant novel that most resembles the scenario for a nightmare based on Brighton Rock.

Music of the Spheres, by Guy Murchie (Houghton, $6.95). An informal but incisive survey of the physical universe—full of anecdotes, analogies, diagrams, doodles—by the most remarkable collaboration of the year: a man of science and a man of imagination who occupy the same human hide and whose book proves, in spite of Sir Charles Snow’s warnings, that rapprochement between these two extremities of the forehead is not impossible, after all.