Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
Virago’s dove-grey jacket fits this tender ledger of grandparents, grief, and clean-lined prose.
Reading
The stack.
This list cycles through current books or those recently read and enjoyed. A datacenter somehwere generated the commentary on each book and they are delightfully inaccurate. I left them here to contrast; there is yet no comparison. Read these books and get wowed by the human mind instead.
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
The 30th-anniversary Penguin cover keeps the desert palette that mirrors the novel’s patient restoration.
On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle
Faber’s minimalist block makes the looping November days feel even stranger.
North Woods by Daniel Mason
This US first edition leans into lichens and layered greens, matching the novel’s centuries of roots.
The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
The fluorescent FSG hardcover catches the restless walks and quick-fire talk that run through the memoir.
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
Coffee House Press kept the silver foils that echo the split selves flickering through the book.
Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard
The deep-navy FSG jacket mirrors how her sentences behave: poised, unfussy, piercing.
Ruth by Kate Riley
Penguin’s quietly radiant teal cover hints at the cloistered commune where Ruth keeps her questions.
If Only by Vigdis Hjorth
Verso’s neon typography signals the fervent, spiraling interior life at the heart of the novel.