Comfort Reads
“From Russia, with Love,” Ian Fleming’s magnum of espionage kitsch, is a guaranteed escape. For the highest-yield diversion, read the book first, then stream the movie.
Reading & Retreating
Comfort Reads
Mothers and daughters lay at the heart of Amy Tan’s ‘The Joy Luck Club’ but in bridging the generational gap—and crisscrossing the globe—this 1989 novel imparts key lessons for forging ahead in trying times.
Comfort Reads
Ernest Hemingway’s most glamorous novel paints irresistible scenes of Paris and Spain in the 1920s, while its darker themes parallel our current predicament in uncanny ways.
Comfort Reads
In this week’s Comfort Read, we revisit 1948’s “I Capture the Castle,” an impossibly entertaining book about the fortitude and marriage schemes of a family in the English countryside.
Comfort Reads
In this week’s Comfort Reads column, we revisit “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the book that launched the epic series, and find it even more spellbinding in our current confinement.
Comfort Reads
Jacqueline Susann’s 1966 soapy saga of love, fame and friendship won’t win over literary snobs, but for over-the-top-escapism, few novels compare.
