Twenty books. Zero airports. Arguably better.
Armchair Euro Fakeation: A European Reading List for Summer 2026
Twenty books of summer spanning Hungary, Ireland, the Calabrian coast, a Swiss mental institution, wartime Berlin, and a crumbling Tuscan villa. The Europe that didn't make the brochure.
Her genius was in making life do her bidding
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
I am certain I was no more or less irritating than any other good American son of the century, unweathered by experience and unwise to the world. Whatever attributes one found in me were simply, as in the Pekingese, part of the breed.
2026 is shaping up
New Books I’m Looking Foward To This Year (First Half of 2026)
Books that arrive already humming with questions: about how we live, what we inherit, what we automate, what we grieve, and what we still hope books can do for us when the news is unbearable and the group chat is tired.