This summer, heavy hitters will rule beach reading
Sometimes air needs clearing. Sometimes windows need opening. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves about the bedrock beneath our feet. Spring is a good time. But summer is even better - reading alone on a park bench, on an empty beach at 8 in the morning. It never made sense that summer reading should be inconsequential, and feather light, just as the head and the air get clearer and there is more room to think. Summer reading - especially this summer - offers the possibility of refresher courses.
About everything.
Good news is, there are more new books to fill this role than any one vacation could hold. Bad news is, the world appears profoundly, even irrevocably, screwed up, and we demand more clarity on more fundamentals than ever. In fact, if the rumblings of uncertainty in the air since the financial meltdown of 2008 had any positive byproduct -
