Selections from the Occupy Wall Street library

FICTION

Released: May 1, 1968

THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT: HISTORY AS A NOVEL, THE NOVEL AS HISTORY

by Norman Mailer

"Mailer has finally caught a current, plotted a drift, however, and this is an important and passionate pilgrimage."

Once history inhabits a crazy house, egotism may be the last tool left to history" and Mailer the Beast rampant, narrow-eyed Mailer the Novelist, mesmerized Mailer the Participant, tip-top Mailer the Protagonist; Mailer the floating hair Patriot, and just pliant innerman Norm, have together pulled off this remarkable journal, even overtaking Mailer the Image to burst into new playing fields of awareness. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Feb. 18, 2002

A GOOD HANGING

by Ian Rankin

"But any time spent with Rebus is quality time."

Nothing more than 12 character studies, perhaps—but the character they're studying is probably the most interesting man in detective fiction, the quintessential thinking man, Edinburgh DI John Rebus. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Nov. 25, 2002

PREY

by Michael Crichton

"Disappointing effort from an author who simply refuses to change an old, tired template."

Nanotechnology goes homicidal in the latest of this author's ever-more self-derivative thrillers. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Sept. 16, 2003

THE NAMESAKE

by Jhumpa Lahiri

"A disappointingly bland follow-up to a stellar story collection."

A first novel from Pulitzer-winner Lahiri (stories: Interpreter of Maladies, 1999) focuses on the divide between Indian immigrants and their Americanized children. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Dec. 31, 2003

BY NIGHT IN CHILE

by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews

"One of the great Latin American novels, in an exemplary translation. Not to be missed."

Moral weakness and political collusion are the subtly developed themes of this terse 2000 novel, a first US publication for the late, great Chilean author (1953–2003). Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Jan. 18, 2005

PREP

by Curtis Sittenfeld

"Teenaged years served up without sugar: a class act."

A witty, involving boarding-school drama from Seventeen magazine award-winner Sittenfeld. Read full book review >

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Selections from the Occupy Wall Street library