Books: best of 2016
A very satisfying year in books. Below, my favorite reads. The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan Characters linked by the devastation of a bomb set in a crowded marketplace. They grow up and old in surprising, unsettling ways. Christodora, by Tim Murphy A sprawling read set in lower Manhattan, 1970’s to
(...)Reading: comfort and wisdom
Here’s what I’ve been reading and liking lately. Evicted is a thick work of nonfiction by sociologist Matthew Desmond, about tenants and landlords in a poor part of Milwaukee. The book is richly told, detailed, Dickensian. I liked the telling more than the tale, which is depressing, heartbreaking, hopeless. Women and children, the disabled, the
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