ANNA FREUD: A BIOGRAPHY <i> by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (Summit Books: $22.95; 492 pp.) </i>

Using an extraordinary archive of correspondence and published papers based on Anna Freud’s own life, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl has written a thoroughly absorbing and well-rounded book.--Robert Rodman

MASCARA

by Ariel Dorfman (Viking: $17.95; 158 pp.) Dorfman bursts the bounds of political allegory as a genre to include the ultimately inviolable territory that exists between death and life. A marvelously inventive story of suspense.--Cecile Pineda