Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar Not since Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic have I felt so engaged by a book about driving. Not just driving, but about the least-sexy part of driving: parking. If you live (as I do) in an American city in which driving is not a luxury but a …
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May 17
Book Review: At Home, A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson I have adored quite a few of Bill Bryson’s books, especially In a Sunburned Country and A Walk in the Woods, which I found both uproariously funny and full of fascinating anecdotes. I expected to like this one just as much, and got the …