This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela Paul.

Why did a private jet, leaving Martha's Vineyard, crash into the sea,

leaving only two survivors?

Before the fall takes an unexpected turn in the hands of its author Noah Hawley.

You know, you solve the characters, you solve the mystery,

and the danger with writing at Thriller is always that the plot takes over

and you're just running for the last act.

How do you pull together 25 years of brilliant travel writing and foreign reportage?

Andrew Solomon is here to talk about far and away a collection of his writing

filed from around the world.

It is to me really a plea for greater inclusion, a plea against xenophobia,

a plea toward internationalism, a lot of things that suddenly seem urgent in the national debate.

And what's the best YA for summer?

Our review or a margarine angle read through enough young adult novels

to keep you busy until school starts, and it has every attribute of a book

I would not want to read, and it is so, so, so good.

We'll also take a look at the books that we and other people are reading.

And now a question for you, our listeners.

We want to hear about a formative summer book from your past.

Send us a voice memo telling us about a book you read during the summer.

How old were you when you read it?

Where were you? How did the book affect you?

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