The historian, whose new book is “If Then,” got a hand-me-down copy of “Little Women” from her mother. But I love the physical book, the cover, the smell, the welt on the spine, and that it was my mother’s. What’s the last great book you read? Are there any classics that you only recently read for the first time? I only fairly recently read the Updike “Rabbit” books.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2020 09:00 UTC