NBCC Reads

What's your favorite work of resistance literature? That's the question that launches this year's NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC members and honorees. (NBCC Reads

My summer reading has been a mixture of happenstance and preparation. I spent five weeks in Paris teaching at a program for NYU and I used to pass a little

  Summer reading from Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read (Vintage): My reading list:Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam PhillipsNetwork Aesthetics by Patrick JagodaThe Bathroom by Jean-Phillipe ToussaintBluets by Maggie

“I make it a summer tradition to re-read some Ashbery, who seems to suit the weather and my attendant mood; this year it's Rivers and Mountains and Houseboat Days. I

This is the twenty-second and last essay in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. Thanks to all who contributed. Jane Eyre was the first “adult” novel I

This is the twenty-first in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. The series ends next week. Thanks to all who contributed.   Up way too late with

This is the twentieth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. It was love-at-first read for me with Henry

This is the nineteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. Growing up, I knew three things about my mother’s

This is the eighteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate

This is the seventeenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. In the spring of my senior year of