Here’s at You, World

(Basic, 295 pp., $24)

CONFRONTED with a mincemeat pie, little Jack Horner put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and was much pleased with himself. For readers of Bill Buckley’s quirky and captivating new book, Cancel Your Own Goddamn Subscription, there are plums aplenty to be savored. Buckley has chosen a potpourri of incidents, encounters, obituaries, discourses on style and usage of the English language, personal attacks and ripostes, charges and counter-charges, and sometimes counter-counter-charges, from the Notes & Asides column he edited that ran in National Reviewfor more than 40 years.

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Priscilla L. Buckley

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(Basic, 295 pp., $24)

CONFRONTED with a mincemeat pie, little Jack Horner put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and was much pleased with himself. For readers of Bill Buckley’s quirky and captivating new book, Cancel Your Own Goddamn Subscription, there are plums aplenty to be savored. Buckley has chosen a potpourri of incidents, encounters, obituaries, discourses on style and usage of the English language, personal attacks and ripostes, charges and counter-charges, and sometimes counter-counter-charges, from the Notes & Asides column he edited that ran in National Reviewfor more than 40 years.