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...HEIRS OF CAIN by Abraham Rothberg. 319 pages. Putnam...
...become the idiom of the times. The spy novel, once devoted to the exploitation of intrigue and suspense, is more and more becoming a vehicle by which serious writers explore the wretched state of man and the cruelty of the human heart. In this bitter, brilliantly drawn book, Abraham Rothberg, historian, journalist and teacher, adopts an espionage mission as the framework for probing the holocaust that enveloped European Jewry after Hitler's rise to power...
...Clyde, a bimonthly magazine for men started by Gerald Rothberg, a 26-year-old bachelor who has sensibly clung to his job on Esquire (promotion manager). An equivocating blend of Esquire (semi-intellectual articles) and Playboy (semi-revealed torsos), Clyde in two issues has not yet decided which approach it prefers...
FLASHES IN THE NIGHT, edited by William Juhasz and Abraham Rothberg (87 pp.; Random House; $2.50), is a collection of seven short stories by Hungarian writers. Some of the authors took part in the recent revolt and wound up in jail. Some, not all, were Communist Party members, and some stood high in the esteem of their masters. Yet all are aware, in varying degrees, that they and their countrymen are living falsely because they are not living freely. Not all of these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because...