Best of the Millennium
September 24, 2009
#2: The Known World by Edward P. Jones 6
by Jean Thompson
Jones’ refashioning of antebellum history is profoundly subversive and profoundly satisfying.
September 24, 2009
#3: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 12
by Lauren Groff
It is hard not to make sweeping pronouncements after having lived this book.
September 24, 2009
#4: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 0
by Paul La Farge
2666 encroaches on memory; it encroaches on reality itself.
September 24, 2009
#5: Pastoralia by George Saunders 6
by Porochista Khakpour
Saunders isn’t simply one of our best writers, but one of our best humans.
September 23, 2009
#6: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 12
by Bret Anthony Johnston
No matter how desolate the story, it is made bearable through language.
September 23, 2009
#7: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald 3
by Elise Blackwell
In its layered explorations of the limitations and possibilities of the narrative I and the narrative eye, Austerlitz changed how I read and how I think.
