Bookmarks

Margaret Atwood on 'Wide Sargasso Sea'
Wide Sargasso Sea
Bill T. Jones On 'Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees'
Emily Parker on 'Conversation in the Cathedral'
"Conversation in the Cathedral."
Junot Diaz on 'Dark Reflections'
Orhan Pamuk on 'Anna Karenina'
Anna Karenina
Megan Stielstra Recommends "The Chronology of Water"
"The Chronology of Water" by Lidia Yuknavitch
T.C. Boyle Recommends “Winter World”
"Winter World" by Bernd Heinrich
Helen MacDonald Recommends "The Dark Is Rising"
"The Dark Is Rising" by Susan Cooper
Bryan Stevenson Recommends "Gilead"
"Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson
Laurence Jackson Hyman Recommends “We Have Always Lived in The Castle”
"We Have Always Lived in the Castle" By Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics)
Joe Hill Recommends "Disappearance at Devil's Rock"
"Disappearance at Devil's Rock" by Paul Tremblay
Gemma Files Recommends “Skin”
"Skin" by Kathe Koja
George Saunders Recommends "I Will Bear Witness"
"I Will Bear Witness" by Victor Klemperer
Jacqueline Woodson Recommends "If Beale Street Could Talk"
"If Beale Street Could Talk" by James Baldwin
Viet Thanh Nguyen Recommends "The Land at the End of the World"
"The Land at the End of the World" by António Lobo Antunes
John Waters Recommends "The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy"
"The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy"
Julie Schumacher Recommends "Elephant's Journey"
"The Elephant's Journey" by Julie Schumacher
Kim Stanley Robinson Recommends "The U.S.A. Trilogy"
USA Trilogy
Jonathan Chait on “What Hath God Wrought”
What Hath God Wrought cover
Philip Glass Recommends "The Wayfinders" by Wade Davis
"The Wayfinders" by Wade Davis
Jeff VanderMeer Recommends "The Kills"
The Kills
Jeff VanderMeer Recommends "Brodeck's Report"
Brodeck's Report
Andy Weir Recommends "Ready Player One"
"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
Michael Tisserand on “My Friend Dahmer”
"My Friend Dahmer" by Derf Backderf
Paul Beatty on “The Nazi and the Barber”
"The Nazi and the Barber" by Edgar Hilsenrath
Alissa Quart On "Days of Abandonment" and "Sleepless Nights"
"The Days Of Abandonment" by Elena Ferrante
Marshall Boswell Recommends David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest"
"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
Alex Abramovich on "Blues People"
Blues People
Kazuo Ishiguro on "Prayers for the Stolen"
"Prayers for the Stolen" by Jennifer Clement
A.O. Scott Recommends "The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson"
"The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson."
Jennifer Jacquet Recommends 'Last Chance To See'
David Morris Recommends "Solo Faces"
"Solo Faces" by James Salter
Vikram Chandra on “The King Must Die”
"The King Must Die"
Leslie Jamison on "Orphans"
Orphans
Steve Almond Recommends "Stoner"
Stoner
Eric Liu on “Inventing America”
"inventing america"
Mishy Harman on "A Tale of Love and Darkness"
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Karl Ove Knausgaard on "The Flame Alphabet"
the flame alphabet
Nick Bantock on "The Fencing Master"
The Fencing Master
Benjamin Kunkel on "Steady-State Economics"
steady state economics
Karen Russell Recommends "A High Wind in Jamaica"
"A High Wind in Jamaica" by Richard Hughes
Brendan Koerner on "Confessions of a Mask"
Confessions of a Mask
Eric Jarosinski on "Mythologies"
Mythologies
Sarah Lewis on "The Power of Myth"
"The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell
Nic Pizzolatto on Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
Billy Collins on "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst"
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Walter Kirn Recommends "The Dog of the South"
The Dog of the South
Ruth Ozeki on "Kamikaze Diaries"
Kamikaze Diaries