Bookworm, no. 42

Kyle Wyatt reviews Mary Ormsby’s “World’s Fastest Man*.” Caroline Noël reviews Anne Cathrine Bomann’s “Blue Notes.” Photos from “The Art of Ectoplasm.” Inside the May issue.

In the Long Run

World’s Fastest Man*: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson
Mary Ormsby
Sutherland House
308 pages, hardcover

Many people think they know what happened after Ben Johnson broke the tape in the 100-metre final at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The journalist Mary Ormsby, who was covering the race that day for the Toronto Star, certainly though…