The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

After the death of his wife and the loss of a rare volume, a curmudgeon of a bookshop owner finds a new meaning in the motto “No man is an island.”  The witty and wise novelist Gabrielle Zevin has produced that most precious of things: a tale as...

Paris at the End of the World

During World War I, the sounds of artillery could be heard on the Champs-Élysées, but the threat of destruction seemed only to inspire Parisians to embrace life more fully.  John Baxter follows his grandfather’s steps into a great city’s...