Ten Thrilling Reads Drawn From History When I was a paperboy for Newsday on Long Island, I’d look through the change I collected on Saturdays for old coins. And they’d be in there—pennies or nickels that were older than my father. I’d hold them in my hand and I would think about my grandparents and […]

A Mid-Winter’s Reading List I live in Honolulu, where it occasionally dips below 80 degrees in the wintertime. Unless I’m traveling, I have to experience seasons vicariously by reading Icelandic noir and the kind of nonfiction in which the narrator inevitably loses either his fingers or his nose to the cold. But it occurs to […]