Italics Are Mine

Nina Berberova. Vintage Books USA, $16 (600pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74537-2

Her novels and stories having been rediscovered to great acclaim in the West, Russian emigre Berberova surpasses herself with this mesmerizing autobiography that evokes, with unromantic candor, the world of her fiction--Paris from the 1920s through the 40s. (Sept.)

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