Taking What I Like

Linda Bamber’s debut story collection presents classic characters of fiction and theater in rare modern form, including figures from Othello running a collegiate English department.

Cuba, Khrushchev & Kennedy

August 30: The Moscow–Washington “Hot Line” was established on this day in 1963. A Cold War icon, the Hot Line was the direct result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which exchanges between the Kremlin and the White House sometimes took...