The April 26 New Yorker also published an excellent short story by Colum McCann. “Transatlantic” shares an attempt to be the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic. I thought it was restrained and wonderful, calling up all the promise of the new, technological world establishing itself through a great gamble undertaken by two scarred, matter-of-fact men.

Reading more, it turns out it’s a true story! But I enjoyed it nonetheless.