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The Long Ships

Unearthing a Viking treasure. In my career as a reader I have encountered only three people who knew The Long Ships, and all of them, like me, loved it immediately. Four for four: from this tiny but...

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Staff Picks: Feckless Frenchmen, Old Philip Roth

The hero of Emmanuel Bove’s My Friends, a wounded WWI pensioner with no friends, is possibly the most pathetic character in French literature. I invite corrections—there are so many feckless...

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The Arches of New York, and Other News

Photo: Michael Freeman, courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York, via Gizmodo Because completion is for rubes—twelve books that end in the middle of a A new app promises to help you speed-read....

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