The Gifts of Reading Condition:Good When you have Americans who

When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments

unexpected romance

A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicalsAt the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women

often by devil-may-care means

This struggle in turn demonstrates the importance of these events for defining social identity

The Gifts of Reading Condition:Good When you have Americans whoFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves each participant enriched. Here Robert Macfarlane