The Last Samurai
Paul La Farge revisit’s Helen DeWitt’s novel in which intellectual playfulness is at the core of a boy’s education.
Paul La Farge
Paul La Farge is the author of two novels: The Artist of the Missing and Haussmann, or the Distinction.
The Pale King
Setin an office of IRS auditors, David Foster Wallace’s posthumously publishedbook is a novel about boredom that’s filled with surprise.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A tale of love and intrigue set in the cultural cross-currents of 19th-century Nagasaki, from the author of Cloud Atlas.
The Lost City of Z
An Amazonian Shangri-la and the hapless adventurers who sought its secrets.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The idiosyncratic novelist tells the true story of his long-running race against his own body’s limits.