LETTER TO A MAN IN THE FIRE: Does God Exist and Does He Care? By Reynolds Price. Scribner. 112 pp. $20
ISAIAH BERLIN: A Life. By Michael Ignatieff. Metropolitan Books. 356 pp. $30
AT HOME WITH THE MARQUIS DE SADE: A Life. By Francine du Plessix Gray. Simon & Schuster. 491 pp. $27.50
SADE: A Biographical Essay. By Laurence L. Bongie. Univ. of Chicago Press. 336 pp. $29
THE UNKNOWN MATISSE: A Life of Henri Matisse–The Early Years, 1869–1908. By Hilary Spurling. Knopf. 480 pp. $40.
THE AMATEUR: An Independent Life of Letters. By Wendy Lesser. Pantheon. 274 pp. $24
KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. By Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin. 384 pp. $26
ATHENS: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age. By Christian Meier. Trans. by Robert and Rita Kimber. Metropolitan. 640 pp. $37.50
THURGOOD MARSHALL: American Revolutionary. By Juan Williams. Times Books. 459 pp. $27.50
THE BRITISH MONARCHY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Marilyn Morris. Yale Univ. Press. 229 pp. $28.50