This month offers two first-class literary voyages to the Mediterranean with no chance of losing your luggage. Consider the vicarious thrill of reading about how other people get away, how they manage the demands of scheduled frivolity, how they cram friends and family into a small space for a few days of artificial intimacy. ¶ But even if the hottest thing you’ll experience this summer is Washington weather, that’s no reason to stay home. Should you bear down or let yourself go? Is this the summer you finally tackle “Anna Karenina”? Or is it time to stop lugging around Thomas Piketty’s “Capital” and put something in the suitcase that you might actually read - something with embossed, reflective type on the cover? ¶ Go ahead, you’re on vacation: No one in Cancun cares that you’re loving the Divergent trilogy. Plotting your summer vacation is a task freighted with weighty decisions, and the weightiest things you’ll pack are books. "Summer House with Swimming Pool" by Herman Koch.
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