Books
November, 1974
How is the catholicity of your reading—as T. S. Eliot might have put it—these days? Touching all the bases? Keeping up? All of that jive. Well, here are some nonfiction titles for you and if you can find any pattern to them, you should be working in a library and not fooling around reading big, expensive, glossy magazines.The Curve of Binding Energy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by John McPhee, is a quiet little book with what you might call an explosive message. What McPhee—one of the most gracefu...
