The Best of My Summer - A Bumper Crop of Recommendations!

The giveaway is a copy of 'Didion & Babitz' by Lili Anolik

Dear Readers,

On the final afternoon of 2024 I was carefully washing the band of my new A.P.C. x Casio A1000 watch because I’d gotten it dirty when I was in some scrubland burying a chook.

On my knees there, shoulder-deep in the earth to make sure the hole was deep enough that a fox or stray dog couldn’t just dig up the carcass, I fought the urge to take…