Currently Reading
White Girls, Hilton Als
China in Ten Words, Yu Hua
Switched on Pop, Nate Sloan & Charlie Harding
Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe
The Sellout, Paul Beatty
Bookshelf
Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett***
Negroland, Margo Jefferson**
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Alexander Chee*
Creative Quest, Questlove*
The Idiot, Elif Batuman*
Go Home!, Edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan*
Raised in Captivity, Chuck Klosterman*
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib*
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, Victoria Chang
The Absent Moon, Luiz Schwarcz*
Mother Winter: A Memoir, Sophia Shalmiyev*
Today in the Taxi, Sean Singer*
Lot: Stories, Bryan Washington*
How We Became Human, Joy Harjo*
Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Leslie Jamieson*
Three Novels, Yuri Herrera
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino
The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wang
Living in Data, Jer Thorp
Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, Andre Perry
Speak, Okinawa, Elizabeth Miki Brina
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The Best of Me, David Sedaris
Art and Faith: A Theology of Making, Makoto Fujimura
Stay, Nick Flynn
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Snacky Tunes: Music Is the Main Ingredient, Chefs and Their Music, Darin Bresnitz, Greg Bresnitz, and Khuong Phan
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
Memorial, Bryan Washington
Liberation Day, George Saunders
What We Were Promised, Lucy Tan
Calypso, David Sedaris
The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, Editors: Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Britt Rusert
Known and Strange Things, Teju Cole
Stay True, Hua Hsu
Outline, Rachel Cusk
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
You Are Not a Stranger Here, Adam Haslett
Constructing a Nervous System, Margo Jefferson
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
Union Atlantic, Adam Haslett
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Just Us: An American Conversation, Claudia Rankine
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside, Xiaowei Wang
If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
Swimming Studies, Leanne Shapton
Hunger, Roxane Gay
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
Chemistry, Weike Wang
Grand Union, Zadie Smith
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China, Jung Chang
What Unites Us, Dan Rather
American Utopia, David Byrne and Maira Kalman
A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley
Tenth of December: Stories, George Saunders
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
Every Good Endeavor, Timothy Keller
Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang
The Messy Middle, Scott Belsky
Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta
The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami
A Work in Progress: A Journal, René Redzepi
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Educated, Tara Westover
A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Poetry
True Life, Adam Zagajewski
Asymmetry, Adam Zagajewski
回 / Return, Emily Lee Luan
Sight Lines, Arthur Sze
Electric Arches, Eve L Ewing
Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong
The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus
Unfinished
Go Ahead in the Rain, Hanif Abdurraqib
My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
On the Origin of Species and Other Stories, Kim Bo-young
Alien Capital, Iyko Day
But What If We're Wrong?, Chuck Klosterman