The novel. Conspicuous by its absence from the Times' summer reading list

Summer Reading

Note the categories under which they range their seventy five recommendations.

Three are genre fiction and five are non-fiction.

And days grow shorter, not longer, as we move through summer.

Somebody at the Times has flubbed that.

The solstice, the year's longest day, the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and widely known as "Midsummer Night" (yes, Shakespeare), was Friday, June 21, this year.