The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
10 best books like The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (Elizabeth Hardwick): Early Work, The Topeka School, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Pnin, Lolly Willowes, Transit, Swimming Studies, Locus Solus, Guestbook: Ghost Stories, The Native Trees of Canada
| Author | Andrew Martin |
| ISBN | 0374146128 |
A wry, supersmart, seriocomic first novel from a prodigious talent—a Sentimental Education for our time
For young writers of a certain temperament—if they haven’t had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet—the delusion persists that great writing must...
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0374277788 |
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right
Adam Gordon...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 1400041988 |
One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950's. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| ISBN | 0940322161 |
This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.
I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...
| Author | Anna Seghers |
| ISBN | 3746651530 |
“Transit” is the perfect title for this masterpiece of refugee fiction!
There are so many layers of meaning in that short word, all symbolically integrated in the straightforward, realistic story, mirroring Anna Seghers’ own odyssey during the Second World War.
The most...
| Author | Leanne Shapton |
| ISBN | 0399158170 |
"Swimming Studies" is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating glimpse into...
| Author | Raymond Roussel |
| ISBN | 0714507342 |
Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century.
Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous...
| Author | Leanne Shapton |
| ISBN | 0399158189 |
What haunts us? What can’t we let go of? A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence, until one day he vanishes. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants....
The Native Trees of Canada
| Author | Leanne Shapton |
| ISBN | 1770460322 |
A bold reinterpretation of a century-old book
While shopping in the used-book store the Monkey's Paw in Toronto, Leanne Shapton happened upon a 1956 edition of the government reference book The Native Trees of Canada, originally published in 1917 by the Canadian Department of Northern Affairs...
| Author | Renata Adler |
| ISBN | 0060971436 |
One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back.
When members of the National Book Critics Circle were polled to see which book they would most like to see republished, they chose Speedboat—“by far.” This story of a young female newspaper reporter coming of age in New York City...
