Read Educated

Punt along the Backs past King’s College Chapel and the Bridge of Sighs, then drink in the pub where DNA was announced.

Experience the Gem State

Two sisters raised by an eccentric aunt in an Idaho lake town; Marilynne Robinson's first.

Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter; his Oscar comeback.

Two years in a cabin by a pond; Thoreau on living deliberately.

Zweig's memoir of Vienna before 1914 and Europe after, finished the day before his suicide.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

Orwell as a dishwasher and a tramp; poverty from the inside.