In our new summer issue of Forum, author Heather Cass White, who's written wisely and well and the art of reading, offers a few lively thoughts about her summer reading life and includes some book recommendations for vacation season. Among her picks: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke's quirky fictional history of English magic; and Ducks, which White describes as Lucy Ellmann's "stream-of-consciousness doorstopper about a day in the life of an Ohio wife and mother." If you missed White's Forum essay, you can read it here.

Do you have a favorite summer read right now? If so, we'd love to hear about it. A great read for Forum editor Danny Heitman, is The Summer Book, Tove Jansson's 1972 novel about a little girl and her grandmother as they pass the season on a little island off the coast of Finland. The writing is deceptively simple and vivid, and Jansson's bite-size vignettes perfectly capture the episodic way we often experience summer.

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