A Year in Reading 2010 32

There are many ways to measure a year, but the reader is likely to measure it in books.

Words Behind Bars: Avi Steinberg's Running the Books 2

There is a voyeuristic thrill to peering inside a prison, not merely at the incarcerated, an isolated community of sinister and curious social outcasts, but at the entire mini-civilization - the guards, staff, rules, rituals - which all seem so foreign and exotic compared to our own.

Tuesday New Release Day 0