The Red Tenda of Bologna

This month's Phinney by Post selection (see above) was so tiny I added a couple of our popular Penguin Modern booklets to the package, including this perfect companion, Berger's marvelous elegy for his uncle: a ne'er-do-well, a curious and thoroughly idiosyncratic man, and a traveler with a love of, among other places, the old city of Bologna. It's as beautiful and off-handedly insightful as anything I've read of Berger's.