Night-Table Reading

Fair Arts

Who reads what between the sheets.

Clare Boothe Luce (writer-ambassadress): Modern Times, by Paul Johnson (Harper & Row); Confession of a Catholic, by Michael Novak (Harper & Row).

Jonathan Miller (director): Caravaggio, by Howard Hibbard (Harper & Row).

Paul Taylor (choreographer): The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (Modern Library), which has influenced .. .Byzantium, his new ballet; “I'd rather read than go to the movies or a dance concert; you can believe in a book more than in most things.”

Elaine Kaufman (restaurateuse): The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro (Knopf); Seven Silent Men, by Noel Behn (Arbor).

Roy Cohn (lawyer): The Story of Henri Tod, by William F. Buckley, Jr. (Doubleday); Ancient Evenings, by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown); The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth, by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton (Holt, Rinehart and Winston).