Read more“There were enough stories among those pieces of paper to last a lifetime, and these stories would lift the fog obscuring the patch of earth I had alighted on.”
A Foreign Country: A Novel
By Charles Cumming St. Martin’s Press, $24.99, 357 pages The abrupt disappearance of a young nanny in 1978, a brutal murder of an elderly couple in Cairo, a kidnapping in Paris, a mistaken identity, and a breakneck chase across the English...Read more“Weimar Berlin is a … capitalist Babylon high on jazz cocaine where a coterie of artists, musicians, and writers invented the twentieth century.”