The Western Canon
Harold Bloom's 1994 defence of Western literature is a book that arrives already lit. Before you even reach the text proper, there is the…
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Few works of literary criticism have managed to feel simultaneously of their moment and stubbornly permanent, but Sandra Gilbert and Susan…
Lectures on Literature
Reading Nabokov's collected lectures feels like being ushered into a private chamber where an aristocratic Russian butterfly collector is…
Aspects of the Novel
Nearly a century after E.M. Forster delivered the Clark Lectures at Trinity College in 1927, this slim volume remains one of the stranger classics…
My Sister’s Keeper
Jodi Picoult built her reputation on picking at the knots most novelists leave alone, and My Sister's Keeper is the book where that instinct…
Artemis Fowl
When Artemis Fowl arrived in 2001, it was saddled with the "new Harry Potter" label and has spent the two decades since either suffering…
The Giver
There are certain books that lodge themselves permanently in the architecture of your reading memory, and Lois Lowry's 1993 novel is one of…
Fever Pitch
There are sports memoirs, and there are memoirs that happen to involve sport, and Fever Pitch belongs defiantly in the second camp. First published…
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Nearly four decades after publication, Tom Wolfe's first novel still grabs a reader by the lapels and refuses to let go. That force is what I…
A Wizard of Earthsea
Coming to A Wizard of Earthsea for the first time is an odd experience, because so much of what feels familiar in modern fantasy seems to have been…
Dune
Rejected by more than twenty publishers and finally issued by a house best known for auto-repair manuals, Dune received essentially no mainstream…
The Scarlet Letter
There are books you read and books you wrestle with, and Hawthorne's 1850 tale of sin, guilt and Puritan judgement firmly belongs in the…
