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All the Caged Things
Chinelo Okparanta
‘All that thought of home gave the girl a sickly feeling, the longing of something so out of reach, something she wasn’t even sure she could any longer truly remember.’
Among the Citizen Soldiers
Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan visits Lexington, Virginia – a centre of the Confederary – in the wake of the far-right rally in Charlottesville.
Anthony Marra | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Anthony Marra
‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’
Best Book of 1818: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Luke Neima
‘What sets Hoffmann’s work apart is the meeting of the joint impulses of Enlightenment and Romantic thought’
Blameless
Claudio Magris
‘People think they’re destroying, but it’s hard work, nearly impossible; building is easy, illusory but easy.’
Blue Self-Portrait
Noémi Lefebvre
‘One piece of luck: I didn’t explain to the pianist how to play the piano.’ Translated from the French by Sophie Lewis.
Books Do Furnish a Room
Penelope Lively
‘The shelves say something about the person who has stocked them; they say much.’
Bright Circle
Ben Lerner
‘Things he dreamt began to show up in the bushes, the plastic figurine from a parachute firework, the small dull rusted circular saw blade he thought of as a throwing star, and he pocketed those things.’
Brom
Ottessa Moshfegh
‘I stay mostly in my bedroom chambers, examining what has found its way into my pores or the mucoid crook of my eye.’
Catherine Lacey | Five Things Right Now
Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.