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January 01, 1990 - November 30, 2012 + Bookworm
David Shields 
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The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead (Knopf)David Shields wrote this book to relieve his terrible fear of death. He compares...
Jim Krusoe
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Girl Factory (Tin House)In Jim Krusoe's strange and funny new novel, six women are being preserved in acidophilus in the basement of a frozen yogurt...
Peter Carey
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His Illegal Self (Knopf)The excitement of Peter Carey's new novel is rendered through a
specific stylistic choice: He integrates two wildly different voices
into the sentences, creating...
Ariana Reines
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Coeur de Lion (Mal-o-mar); The Cow (Fence Books)
This astonishing young poet—still in her twenties—is surely destined to be one of the crucial voices of her...
Colm Toibin
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Mothers and Sons: Stories (Scribner)
Colm Tóibín candidly describes the inspirations for the stories in his first collection. Sometimes a landscape is enough to trigger a...
Anne Enright
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The Gathering (Grove)
In Anne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor.
Arnon Grunberg
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The Jewish Messiah (Penguin)
Unsettling, profane and goofy, Arnon Grunberg’s
novel takes politically incorrect risks with contemporary Jewish culture.
William T. Vollmann
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Riding toward Everywhere (Ecco)William Vollmann decided to spend as much time as possible viewing the stars from the flatbed of a moving train. He’s a...
David Rieff
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Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir (Simon & Schuster)David Rieff accompanied his mother, Susan Sontag, through the medical ordeals that led to...
Geraldine Brooks
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People of the Book (Viking)The art of detection unravels the secrets of the Sarajevo Haggadah. What does the miraculous survival of this medieval codex tell...
Lewis Hyde
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)How does the creative person function in a market culture? In the 25 years since...
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson
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Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) and Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press) and Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa...
Robert Hass
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 (Ecco)
If it can still be said that a poet can have a humanizing influence on his culture, Robert Hass...
Cees Nooteboom
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Lost Paradise (Grove)
In this duel of interpretations, Dutch writer Nooteboom (who has been repeatedly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize) shows the whipper-snapper Michael Silverblatt...
Oliver Sacks
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf)
Oliver Sacks explores the brain's affinity for music by examining the extraordinary ways our brains adapt in response...
