“Table for Two” is a collection of six stories and a novella set in two very different cultural capitals. By Hamilton Cain Hamilton Cain is a book critic and the author of “This Boy’s Faith: Notes ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting ...

Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick). For his next book ...

I have become an Amor Towles fan. Last April I authored a review of Towles’ A Gentleman In Moscow. Occasionally, I have to sue crooked fiduciaries who have breached their duties to my clients. In ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting ...