ON BOOKS | OPINION: Summer reading picks — Different guests, same party

The books that have actually impressed me this season look, at first glance, like they belong at different parties. One tackles translating Shakespeare. Another explores forgiveness inside a family. A third follows artists trying to remain artists after adulthood arrives with the bill. The last chases down masterpieces looted by the Nazis. Yet, as usual, they're all secretly in cahoots.