“Clothes matter — especially when you get old,” he says. By Sadie Stein Tom Lamont’s debut novel, “Going Home,” considers the joys and frustrations of raising a child who is not your own.
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.