My Salinger Year

Call it Girls for grown women. Joanna Rakoff’s memoir of ’90s Brooklyn – and her surprising friendship with the hermetic J.D. Salinger – is a nimble, strong-willed look at her choice to “come of age” and write with an open heart.

Traitors to All

Why do nice folks keep turning up dead in the same Milanese canal? Detective Lamberti suspects the corrupt lawyer with whom he once shared a prison cell. Giorgio Scerbanenco’s reissued 1966 crime noir is a perfect beach read, and cooler than a chilled...