(The annotated opening pages of our reviewer’s copy of “Ragtime," a 2007 printing, includes a blurb from the Voice.) As in To Kill a Mockingbird or The Brothers Karamazov, Doctorow devotes the ...

This story begins and ends with a photo. It’s Igor Stravinsky, the legendary modernist composer. He looks a little worse for wear. In fact, it looks like a mug shot. The date on the Boston ...