Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves: Bookmarked
Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves is a classic of modern, experimental literature, a “demonically brilliant book [that] is impossible to ignore, put down, or persuasively conclude reading,”...
View ArticleMalcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: Bookmarked
The New York Times called Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 novel Under the Volcano “One of the towering novels of this century,” and the Modern Library ranked the book number eleven on its list of the one hundred...
View ArticleRaymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked
A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential...
View ArticleGeorge Saunders’ Pastoralia: Bookmarked
George Saunders’ 2000 short story collection, Pastoralia, is an exaggerated and darkly humorous satire on American life at the turn of the twenty-first century, merging the spirit of James Thurber...
View ArticleAmerican Apartheid
“With its combination of reportage and historical context, Stephanie Woodard’s American Apartheid reveals not only the extraordinary difficulties under which First Americans labor, but also how and why...
View ArticleA Guest in the House of Hip-Hop
“…an entertaining and richly informative instruction manual for both seasoned and budding allies.”-Kirkus Reviews “An honest and desperately needed treatment of hip hop, race, and culture. Hess’s...
View ArticleWomanish
Womanish. (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children, “you acting womanish,”...
View ArticleWilliam Stoner and the Battle For the Inner Life: Bookmarked
Stoner tells the story of William Stoner. Born into a poor Missouri farming family at the end of the nineteenth century, Stoner is sent to the state university to study agronomy. Instead, he falls in...
View ArticleNo Option But North
In the thick of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, and through the travel bans his administration issued in 2017, journalist Kelsey Freeman spent nine months interviewing Central American...
View ArticleBlack Manhattan
Originally published in 1930, and now back in print with a foreword by best-selling author Zadie Smith, Black Manhattan traces the black experience in New York City from the earliest settlements in...
View ArticleVladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: Bookmarked
Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory is one of the most critically acclaimed memoirs of the twentieth century. In this classic account of his life, Nabokov writes about his idyllic Russian childhood in an...
View ArticleThe Heartbeat of Iran
“Tara Kangarou has created a work of people-to-people diplomacy, using her words to paint pictures of a very different country than the harsh, angry land depicted in the news.”―Anne-Marie Slaughter...
View ArticleJames Baldwin’s Another Country: Bookmarked
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, James Baldwin’s Another Country is a novel of sexual, racial, political, and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional...
View ArticleTruman Capote’s In Cold Blood: Bookmarked
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is one of the best-selling American books of all time, and pretty much started the popular true crime genre. In the latest volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series,...
View ArticleGod’s Ex-Girlfriend
“An enlightening, cautionary tale about the seductive, sometimes manipulative strategies of Evangelicalism.”—Kirkus“With engaging and conversational prose, Amodeo offers us a compelling look at the...
View ArticleChristina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked
“Lucy Ferriss brings her signature honesty, clarity, and grace to bear on Christina Stead’s famously challenging and rewarding novel about the frightening misuses of paternal power. I happily followed...
View ArticleEveryday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed
“Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed is imbued with the same kind of unapologetic, raw and unflinching honesty as McLarin’s previous work, which makes it a welcome and timely read....
View ArticleElena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked
What is it about Elena Ferrante’s writing, especially her masterwork Neapolitan Novels, that resonates so deeply with millions of readers, making this Italian author who writes under a pseudonym with...
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