“Love in a Cold Climate” by Nancy Mitford “Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford’s most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts,
“The last time they met” by Anita Shreve “The Last Time They Met opens with two old lovers, both poets, running into each other at a writer’s conference. Well, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes aren’t old, actually–just middle-aged, with a lifetime’s worth of history between them. In the first section, Anita Shreve only suggests what
“Let the great world spin” by Colum McCann “As the narrator of Colum McCann’s new novel sees it, Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 triggered a quietude generally unknown to New Yorkers. «Those who saw him hushed,» McCann writes. «It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.»
