The New Criterion has a nice review up of David Mason’s lyrical memoir, News from the Village: Aegean Friends. Here’s a taste: “In one of the book’s most eloquent passages, Mason meditates on loss by reciting a litany of the changes Greece has endured, from the ‘ancient kingdoms of Laconia’ to today, when ‘it’s globalization the young are fighting.'” You can read the whole thing here.