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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
James Mustich
At the outset of his long, ever-evolving career as a dramatist, Edward Albee was an American heir to the intellectual energies of the European Theater of the Absurd. In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, first staged in 1962, Albee moved his ferocity out of the absurd into a more realistic setting, a ...show more
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Adam's Task
Vicki Hearne
Vicki Hearne was frustrated that the different worlds of discourse her interests occupied were so far apart. She knew that the conversation that takes place between animals and effective trainers demands sensitivity and imagination on both sides, but that its true character goes against the grain of...show more
Blindness
José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero
Spooky, eye-opening, and human. It's written with a kind of fury. Be carful reading it on a subway, you may find yourself weeping for the mass of intelligent chimps that bump and push and yell around you.
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
Jonathan Eig
Possibly the only book you need to read about baseball. It's about baseball, sure, and one important man, but it's also about America, its history, and what it means to be an American.
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Before publishing The Things They Carried, twenty-two interwoven stories that tell of the lives of Alpha Company’s members in and after Vietnam, Tim O’Brien had written a memoir of his service in Southeast Asia, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me
Up and Send Me Home (1973), as well as an award-winnin...show more
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Some books resonate deeply with the tenor of their times. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig’s 1974 “inquiry into values,” is a case in point. Rejected, according to the author, by dozens of editors before it finally found a publisher, it became an enduring publishing phenomeno...show more
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Alex, the frightening narrator of this brutal and brilliant novel, is an amoral, Beethoven-loving gang leader in a near-future
dystopian Britain. Whether adolescent girls or a schoolteacher returning from the library, the gang’s victims are treated with an exuberantly vicious disregard: They might ...show more