When Britain’s Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France’s most discussed, ...
THE JOURNALS OF ANDRÉE GIDE VOL. II, 1914-1927 (462 pp.)—Translated and annotated by Justin O’Brien—Knopf ($6). One day in 1881 a Paris schoolboy “fell convulsively sobbing into mamma’s arms” and ...
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD ...