Getting GONE

Four new books offer trips across time and space

Vanities / Books

By Keziah Weir

"A force was pressing up from under her," writes Maggie Shipstead in Great Circle. "Lift. It was lift." The epic ode to flight flits between the life of a pilot whose plane was downed in 1950 and the actor starring in her biopic some 70 years later, from Knopf. In other airplane nostalgia, Jodi Peckman's Come Fly With Me: Flying in Style, out from Rizzoli, provides decades of airport fashions, from a 1998 Naomi Campbell, pictured here, to a pearl-laden 25-year-old Jane Fonda. Filed under voyages best taken vicariously is Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night, Julian Sancton's tale of an ill-fated 19th-century voyage, from Crown. Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy is a bright amble through Hockney's emails to (and context from) his old friend Martin Gayford on such topics as good countries for smokers and theories of perspective, with art by Hockney, pictured, and others. "The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us," Hockney wrote Gayford in 2017. "Today always looks a bit of a jumble."