Revisiting the Classics

As part of my program to revisit books that I liked when I was younger, I recently re-read Heinlein’sStranger in a Strange Land for the first time since I was in college. Oh, my. I should point out that as a young person I read all the Heinlein I could find. (Have Space Suit, Will Travelremains one of my favorite books of all time.) Nordid I stick just to the juveniles. Heinlein had the gift of a perfect avuncular voice: if you were a bright kid of thirteen and curious about the world, he was...