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Yesterday I finished reading When the Emperor Was Divine, a novel about a Japanese-American family's experience with the internment camps during and after World War II. It's by Julie Otsuka, and it uses fiction in a powerful way to shed light on a most unpleasant episode in U.S. history.
Today I finished The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. I found it to be sometimes hard going, but always enlightening and well worth the effort. Brian Greene has a wonderful writing style, but most of the endnotes that began with the words "For the mathematically inclined" completely swamped me. This is an endlessly fascinating subject explained by a most competent instructor. Highly, highly recommended.
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