RANDOM NOTES Mo r e Ma y Tit l e s : Aleksandr Zinoviev’s satire of Soviet society, The Yawning Heights (Random House, $15), is an excellent and amusing book. . . . Guy Davenport, the noted critic and short-story writer, is publishing a collection entitled Da Vinci’s Bicycle: Ten Stories (Johns Hopkins, $12.95). So far, the advance notices have all been raves. . . . George Steiner, the literary critic and New Yorker contributor, has written a biography of the German Existentialist philosopher— Martin Heidegger (Viking, $10.95). . . . Oilers and Sweepers and Other Stories (Random House, $7.95) is by George Dennison, a philosophical writer of real interest. . . . Muriel Spark’s latest novel is Territorial Rights (Coward, McCann, $9.95).
In Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (Harvard, $12.50), Eric F. Vogel argues that the United States has much to learn from Nippon when it comes to the refinements of industrial civilization. So me Ju n e Tit l e s : Joan Didion’s col- at the opposite pole from “final justice.”
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