A Scottish mystery by way of Quebec’s Magdalen Islands
Book review: Entry Island, by Peter May
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The kindness of strangers, against all odds
Book review: Strangers drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar
A classicist’s guide to attire for the modern (badly dressed) man
Book review: True Style, by Bruce Boyer
A Danish crime novel that breaks the rules of the murder mystery
Book review: The Murder of Halland, by Pia Juul
How we taught America to love the gun
Book review: Arms: the culture and credo of the gun, by A. J. Somerset
How Emperor Ashoka left his life as a conquerer
Book review: Ashoka in Ancient India, by Nayanjot Lahiri
A dazzling portrait of a man gone awry
Book review: Martin John, by Anakana Schofield
An ambitious exposition of marriage
Book review: Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff
Much more than another book about the Hindenburg disaster
Book review: A history of illogical yet out-of-control engineering, from the Superconducting Super Collider to the Zeppelin
An affirmation of the universal heroism of working women
Book review: Elena Ferrante’s ’The Story of the Lost Child’ completes her series about two childhood friends, this one a reflection on aging and will