A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai It’s among the more playful matters on his ...
All the spectacular 19 th century Russian culture came to mind while reading Amor Towles’s newest book, Table for Two. This time Towles has written a series of short stories along with a novella. The ...
In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises ...
By Philippa TracyAlice Winn’s compelling debut novel In Memoriam is a page-turner. Published in 2023, it is a love story that deals with big themes: forbidden love and the First World War. It tells ...
While the world can be bleak, it turns out that consciously ... “I just never doubted, even on my darkest days, that better times lay ahead—if I only worked towards them.” ...