Newsletter #134

This classic mystery from 1949 follows few of the rules set down by Tey's peers (Christie, Sayers, Marsh) of the "Golden Age" of British crime writing. To begin with, there's no body, and no detective... (Tom)

Noisy Night by Mac Barnett and Brian Biggs If urban density is the new watchword of our 21st-century boomtown, perhaps we should all take a look at Barnett and Biggs's unlikely ode to apartment living... (Tom)

Like the manifestos we highlighted here a few weeks ago—Timothy Snyder's "twenty lessons" about tyranny and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "fifteen suggestions" about feminism—this little book by Mexican... (Tom)