Out of Time
There are fabulous galas and barefoot days by the shore; times of family and times of solitude; talk of books, talk of theater, talk of art.
At The Nervous Breakdown Nathan Huffstutter reviews James Salter’s All That Is.
Own Bed at Night
Mother Jones has Elizabeth Warren’s letter to the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve.
Unexpected Roles
It’s obvious from the first few pages that what Bertina—who serves as both author and narrator—is trying to do is use everything at his disposal to reconstruct his grandfather’s identity: memory, story, fact, and wishful thinking. “As I was becoming a teenager, that is to say a serious person, he was becoming an eccentric, at 70, an inconsistent and flighty person. We missed each other,” Bertina explains.
For Full Stop Scott Beauchamp reviews Arno Bertina’s Brando, My Solitude.
It’s Called Money
Garrett Murray lambastes Amazon for introducing its new virtual currency, Amazon Coins.
A Very Special Case
In the New York Review of Books, Cass R. Sunstein critiques Jeremy Adelman’s biography of Albert Hirschman.
As Adelman tells the tale, Paris left an indelible mark on Hirschman. Surrounded by political dogmas of many different kinds but rejecting every “guiding ism,” he developed an immense enthusiasm for what he called “petites idées”—small ideas and little observations that, for the rest of his life, he would write down in notebooks or on scraps of paper. In Paris he developed the habit of rejecting abstract theories in favor of close observations of actual practices.
Rare Good Fortune
On WHYY’s Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviews Claire Messud.
