Mena Reynolds: The Last Book I Loved, Denial: A Memoir of Terror
Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts in terrorism—the 9/11 kind of terrorism. As an unarmed woman, she went into some of the world’s scariest countries, met some…
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Meghan Daniels: The Last Book I Loved, Anna Karenina
Okay, so maybe most of you have already read this novel. Because it is a classic, because you went to college, because Oprah featured it on her book club. But…
Aporup Acharya: The Last Book I Loved, Ka
In India, and for Hindus, the myths are how we explained the world and everything in it. And from those first musings about the true nature of things came countless…
The Last Book I Loved: Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Deborah Eisenberg’s Collected Stories just won this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award, and last year she received a MacArthur. If you’ve been following the buzz but haven’t yet discovered the pleasures of…
Larissa Speak: The Last Book I Loved, The Still Point
Have you ever played at being an Arctic explorer? Looked at the icy expanse of your backyard as if it was the desolate plain of a frozen tundra? Come to…
Mark Folse: The Last Book I Loved, Mystic Pig
It is a novel, not a cookbook, but my sister the full-on foodie insists that the recipes all look workable, and what could be more perfect than a story about…
Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, Stories I Stole
Wendell Steavenson’s memoir of her time as a freelance foreign correspondent in Tblisi, Georgia, begins in her former Time Magazine office, where she and her friend Nina spin escape fantasies…
Luuk Imhann: The Last Book I Loved, A Moveable Feast
I knew I would love A Moveable Feast, as it deals with Hemingway’s personal life as a young writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book isn’t regarded as fiction,…
The Last Book I Loved: The Triggering Town
When I read Richard Hugo’s “The Triggering Town” essay some years ago, I understood it intuitively and from my own experience of writing.
The Last Books I Loved: After Man and Man After Man
A couple of the more exciting book stumbles I’ve enjoyed recently are Geologist Dougal Dixon’s “zoology of the future,” After Man (1981), and its “anthropology of the future” sequel, Man…
Lydia Heberling: The Last Book I Loved, After the Quake
I feel like now is an inappropriate time to admit that the last book I loved is a book called After the Quake by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, a book…
Cameron MacKenzie: The Last Book I Loved, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
There’s literature and then there are books. You pick up a Rushdie or a Marquez or Bolaño–these are the kind of heavy works which aren’t works at all, but are…