The Tourist--Volume 110
At the end of last year, I tweeted that a publication could easily get a lot of work out of me, at a modest price, by letting me do a New Books column similar to the one in Harpers. I was not kidding. Caitrin Keiper and Plough Quarterly took me up on it, and I have, so far, read 38 new or reissued books in 2020. (How many of these I would have read eve…