A sampling of books we are reading this May…Robert Birnbaum, editor-at-large:I have just read Canadian Micheal Crumney’s Galore set in Newfoundland and spanning the 19th century. There are shades of Garcia Marquez’s Macondo set in the hardscrabble North Atlantic isolation. Also, I am in the middle of John Sayles’s ambitious War and Peace-like opus of [...]







