Bookworm, no. 138

Richard Joseph reviews Ray Robertson’s “The Right to Be Wrong.” Jadine Ngan on Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s “Nightshade.” Inside the April issue.

Many Pants on Fire

The Right to Be Wrong
Ray Robertson
Cormorant Books
148 pages, softcover and ebook

Have we ever been so thoroughly disenchanted? Across the world, trust in public institutions is dwindling. And no wonder. The internet blasts us with headlines about how governments have failed—headlines that, lest we forget, serve as conduits for ad revenue…