4 books
Ann Zwinger
Zwinger went down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon over and over, in every season and just about every kind of boat, usually tagging along with scientists doing river studies. She calls herself an observer at the river’s brim, and…
Lisa Phillips
In 1995, the Whitney Museum of American Art hung a show arguing that the Beats weren’t just a few novelists and a poem about Moloch — they were a whole visual and cultural movement, and this is the catalog. Lisa…
W.G. Sebald
A man walks the Suffolk coast and the walk keeps opening into other things. A skull, a herring fishery, Thomas Browne’s missing remains, the silk trade, Joseph Conrad in the Congo, the Taiping rebellion, a collapsing country house, the hurricane…
Haruki Murakami
Toru Okada is unemployed, boiling spaghetti, when the phone rings. Then the cat disappears. Then his wife does. What follows involves a psychic prostitute, a teenage neighbor, a politician brother-in-law with something badly wrong in him, and a man who…
