Koestler, more famous in his lifetime for his disillusionment with communism, was known to be unfaithful with several women. The full extent of his often brutal philandering, however, now threatens to ...

THIEVES IN THE NIGHT (357 pp.]—Arthur Koestler—Macmil Ian ($2.75). It can never be said of Arthur Koestler that he picks the easy ones. In his powerful anti-Communist novels (Darkness at Noon, Arrival ...

PRIDE in their personal powers of discovery all too often prevents intellectuals from learning out of the experience of others. Each generation insists upon its uniqueness, so that there is no ...

DIALOGUE WITH DEATH—Arthur Koestler—Macmillan ($2). In Darkness At Noon (TIME, May 26, 1941) Arthur Koestler made, of a man in a Soviet prison cell, one of the great symbols of humanity in our time.

THE YOGI AND THE COMMISSAR—Arthur Koestler—Macmillan ($2.50). Hungarian-born Arthur Koestler, once a Communist and still a Socialist, wears what he calls an Old School tie that is “one of the most ...

INSIGHT AND OUTLOOK (442 pp.)—Arthur Koestler—Macmillan ($5). Budapest-born (1905) Arthur Koestler, one of the best political-novelists of the last decade (Darkness at Noon), is also a stubborn, ...

THE INVISIBLE WRITING (431 pp.)—Arthur Koestler—Macmillon ($5). It was perhaps a comradely warning when seedy Otto Katz (who was later purged in Prague) told seedy Arthur Koestler (who lived to write ...

THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE by Arthur Koestler. 384 pages. Macmillan. $6.95. Throughout his life, Arthur Koestler, as gamblers would say, has put his money where his mouth is. As a Communist in civil-war ...

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE — Arthur Koestler—Macmillan ($2). The first day the Nazis tortured Communist Peter Slavek they began by spitting in his face. In a bleak, spacious basement room, where the dim ...

1. In the late 1950s Arthur Koestler, author of “Darkness at Noon” (1940), set out on a two-part journey through India and Japan. In newly independent India, he meets a disciple of Gandhi’s who is ...

THERE is a theory which has not yet been accurately formulated or given a name, but which is very widely accepted and is brought forward whenever it is necessary to justify some action which conflicts ...

OF LIVING English novelists I like Koestler the best.”J his was said to me recently by a friend in France, where Darkness at Noon has, in translation, enjoyed a sensational success. “He is wonderfully ...