Book Recs

Five Over Fifty

Elizabeth Marro

The author of Casualties picks five books by authors who got their start a little later in life.

Junior Edition #41

Celia McGee

Bonnie Nadzam on a Biography of Helen Keller

Bonnie Nadzam

Maybe it’s instructive that I more or less recall the book but not the exact title or author of the book. It was a YA biography of Helen Keller...

Abol Tabol and the Bengali Language

Anuradha Roy

Before I could read, I was read to, and there was only one book that was read aloud in our house. I am four years old. Then five, then six, seven

Louisa May Alcott and James Joyce

Sara Paretsky

I can’t remember the first books I read, although I do remember the first words I wasn’t able to sound out: “city” and “Penelope

Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth Nunez

I grew up in colonial Trinidad, my education similar to that of a British public school, excellent, but clearly intended to reinforce the superiority...

On John Lennon

Elizabeth McKenzie

Two of the first books that made me a reader were In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon

Constant Cravings

Jennifer Haigh

The author of Heat and Light, suggests seven books about addiction.

Junior Edition #40

Celia McGee

The Phantom Tollbooth

James Hannaham

When I read The Phantom Tollbooth, at approximately age nine or so, it had some kind of bizarre cathartic effect on me