What Else I’ve Been Doing

'Fear No Pharaoh' in paperback! Recent writings—on Father Coughlin, Zohran Mamdani, the Border Patrol! Breaking trail!

Imagine my delight when I opened last weekend’s New York Times Book Review and found Fear No Pharaoh in “Paperback Row,” a lists of three books recently out in softcover. I hadn’t known it would be there. The surprise triggered one of those out-of-time moments you read about in Proust, the fleeting thrill of communication with an earlier self who once p…