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Out This Month: Mark Lane interviews forty of his heroes (deserters, dishonorably discharged GIs) in Conversations with Americans, you should pardon the expression (Simon & Schuster, $6.95). . . . Manes Sperber collects his essays in Man and His Deeds (McGraw-Hill, $6.95). . . . Leo Rosten’s formula for making everything all right again is set forth in A Trumpet for Reason (Doubleday, $4.95; paper, $1.95). . . . Herman Wouk’s profession of orthodox Judaism (This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Life, Doubleday, $10) is updated in a Deluxe Edition. . . . More Pricks Than Kicks is ten Beckett short stories penned in 1934 (Grove, $5).

An Empire Loses Hope: The Return of Stalin’s Ghost by Anatole Shub (Norton, $8.95) is a first-hand look at the other side of the Curtain, 1961-68. . . . David Mitchell betrays the slant of his 1919: Red Mirage (Macmillan, $6.95) by chiding the Times for calling the Bolsheviks “human scum.” . . . A Voyage to Pagany is a reissue of William Carlos Williams’ 1928 novel (New Directions, $6.50; paper, $2.75). . . . Netochka Nezvoznova, early Dostoyevsky that’s hard to find in English, will be out in a new translation by Ann Dunningan (Prentice-Hall, $6.95).

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Out This Month: Mark Lane interviews forty of his heroes (deserters, dishonorably discharged GIs) in Conversations with Americans, you should pardon the expression (Simon & Schuster, $6.95). . . . Manes Sperber collects his essays in Man and His Deeds (McGraw-Hill, $6.95). . . . Leo Rosten’s formula for making everything all right again is set forth in A Trumpet for Reason (Doubleday, $4.95; paper, $1.95). . . . Herman Wouk’s profession of orthodox Judaism (This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Life, Doubleday, $10) is updated in a Deluxe Edition. . . . More Pricks Than Kicks is ten Beckett short stories penned in 1934 (Grove, $5).

An Empire Loses Hope: The Return of Stalin’s Ghost by Anatole Shub (Norton, $8.95) is a first-hand look at the other side of the Curtain, 1961-68. . . . David Mitchell betrays the slant of his 1919: Red Mirage (Macmillan, $6.95) by chiding the Times for calling the Bolsheviks “human scum.” . . . A Voyage to Pagany is a reissue of William Carlos Williams’ 1928 novel (New Directions, $6.50; paper, $2.75). . . . Netochka Nezvoznova, early Dostoyevsky that’s hard to find in English, will be out in a new translation by Ann Dunningan (Prentice-Hall, $6.95).