The Liars’ Club
Mary Karr opens her memoir with a memory she admits is incomplete - a family doctor asking a seven-year-old to show him the marks, a sheriff…
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The Journalist and the Murderer
Few books announce themselves as brazenly as this one. "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going…
The Executioner’s Song
The strangest thing about The Executioner's Song is that Norman Mailer is nowhere in it. The most self-advertising writer of his generation -…
Dispatches
Nearly fifty years after publication, Dispatches still reads like nothing else - not like history, not like journalism, not quite like a novel…
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood, published in 1966 after its serialization in The New Yorker, reconstructs the November 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter…
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
In the summer of 1936, Fortune magazine sent James Agee and Walker Evans to Alabama to report on the lives of cotton tenant farmers. What Agee…
Goodbye to All That
Robert Graves was thirty-three when he wrote Goodbye to All That, and he wrote it fast - in a matter of weeks, by his own account, needing money…
Catch-22
Sixty-five years on, the most surprising thing about Catch-22 is how little of its reputation prepares you for the actual experience of reading it.…
The Trial
Few novels begin with a sentence as quietly devastating as this one: Josef K is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong, presumably…
Walden
Few books in the American canon inspire such violently mixed feelings as Walden, and I confess to holding most of them simultaneously.…
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Few books suffer the curse of their own success quite like this one. "Jekyll and Hyde" entered the language so completely that the phrase…
Frankenstein
The myth of Frankenstein in popular culture has so completely disfigured Shelley's deeply human story that anyone whose knowledge comes from…
