Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter
Universal truths drawn from a single life
By Sridhar Pappu Monday, December 21, 2015
Willa Cather’s My Àntonia
The perfect marriage of voice and landscape
By Charlotte Salley Monday, December 14, 2015
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
A panoramic view of London after the Great War
By Elaine Showalter Monday, December 7, 2015
Frances Ruth Keller’s The Contented Little Pussy Cat
A book that respects the intelligence of children
By Ingrid D. Rowland Monday, November 23, 2015
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
The vitality of big ideas
By Fergus M. Bordewich Monday, November 16, 2015
Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game
The difference between scholarship and wisdom
By Clay Risen Monday, November 9, 2015
José Saramago’s Death With Interruptions
What happens when the end doesn’t come?
By Thomas Laqueur Monday, October 26, 2015
J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg
The sinister truths of our souls
By Sheila Kohler Monday, October 19, 2015
Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Sophisticated and never condescending
By Sudip Bose Monday, October 5, 2015
Knut Hamsun’s Pan
A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak
By Robert Roper Monday, March 21, 2016
Henry Beston’s The Outermost House
A parallel world of unknown sensation
By Sy Montgomery Monday, February 29, 2016
John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
A literary classic as thrilling as any airport paperback
By Matthew Quirk Monday, February 22, 2016
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
Literary elegance and a sense of place
By Sally Denton Monday, January 25, 2016
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
A sour vision of beauty and violence
By David Vann Monday, January 11, 2016
Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry
A perfect alchemy of language and experience
By Philip Marsden Monday, January 4, 2016
Richard Hugo’s 31 Letters and 13 Dreams
Missives about real places and authentic people
By Mas Masumoto Monday, December 28, 2015
