NIGHT-TABLE READING

Who reads what between the sheets

DAVID BINTLEY (dancer): The Bach Reader, edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel (W. W. Norton). "Nobody says anything bad about Bach, but I don't know if there is anything bad to say about Bach."

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (painter): Superforce, by Paul Davies (Simon and Schuster). "I want to find out science's latest version of how everything got here."

EDWARD HERRMANN (actor): Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn, by Evan S. Connell (North Point Press). "It's not just a tired rehash but a brilliant account. He's done great homework."

ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE (architecture critic): Mies van der Rohe, by David Spaeth (Rizzoli), and Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, by Franz Schulze (University of Chicago). "Mies has been getting such a kicking around by the postmodernists, and now some people are finally setting the record straight."