In The Importance of Being Earnest, the tutor Miss Prism instructs her student Cecily to omit “The Fall of the Rupee” from her reading in political economy.
I am going to break one of my own rules here. I spent much of the month of May listening to Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables as my audiobook. 60 hours — that’s a lot of workouts!
Fred Siegel’s The Prince of the City: Rudy Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life would be one of the most important histories of the past couple of years even if its subject were not running for president.
In my house, books are distributed room to room on principles that have a good deal more to do with the availability of shelving than any kind of bibliographic logic.