This glorious tapestry of a novel returns to Taylor’s accustomed stomping ground – the university campus – with whisper-close third-person narration and minute observation worthy of his revered Austen. His characters – many gay, many black, all hungering after something intangible – wrestle with art, desire, capital and above all the agony of alienation.
The Late Americans
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In 1960, the author was the first black child to integrate into an all-white school in New Orleans. 60 years later, here is an impassioned call for racial equality.
This is Your Time
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Brought up in North Carolina in the Jim Crow era, AT won a postgraduate scholarship to Brown University, worked at Warhol's Factory and volunteered for Diana Vreeland. He went on to become e... read more
The Chiffon Trenches
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In a silty blend of ecology and economics, ALT takes the matsutake mushroom – the most valuable mushroom in the world, comfortable in ravaged landscapes - as a metaphor for the intricate n... read more
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If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
Caste
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