
Why Trump Backed Down on Tariffs
In an announcement, his publisher described the eighty-seven-year-old’s latest plot as involving a private eye and a missing cheese heiress, as well as “Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them.” It brings to mind what the magazine’s reviewer thought after reading “Gravity’s Rainbow”: “Whew!”