code names for MI6 (the British intelligence service) during the Cold War was UPTIGHT. Similarly, when nonfiction writers start to speculate about the past, you know they have run out of real road and the book hits the wall. What book by somebody else do you wish you had written? What’s the last book you recommended to someone in your family? “Michael Rosen’s Sad Book,” a tiny, intensely moving children’s book about grief prompted by the death of his son, Eddie, and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Source: New York Times August 30, 2018 09:00 UTC