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Cynthia Ozick's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays” leans to “Nabokov rather than Hemingway. If less is more, it is nevertheless also loss.”

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By the Book: Cynthia Ozick (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-07-07).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Villages
John Updike · Buy on Amazon
"the regenerative pleasures of rediscovery — an aching reminder of the absence of that steadily remarkable literary voice"
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
David Nirenberg · Buy on Amazon
"Not about anti-Semitism per se, this landmark study in the history of ideas is also, and stunningly, a history of how the tendentious workings of imagination have shaped not merely Christian and Islamic religious dogma but the entire span of secular philosophy."
Life Sentences
William Gass · Buy on Amazon
"I am right now immersed in "Life Sentences," a 2012 collection by William Gass (our most accomplished living American essayist, hands down)."
The Longest Journey
E. M. Forster · Buy on Amazon
"Rickie Elliot, the sympathetic central figure of "The Longest Journey," E. M. Forster's 1907 novel, which begins in the enchanted Arcadia of young Cambridge philosophers and falls into heartless disillusion."
Cover of Little Women
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868 · Buy on Amazon
"What embryo writer (barring Norman Mailer types) has not been enthralled by the early professional achievement of Jo March? Coming recently upon John Matteson's engaging annotated edition, I was captured once again."
History of the Jews
Heinrich Graetz · Buy on Amazon
"A book that Kafka also read, and that electrified me when, at 17, I discovered it on a bookshelf in Newark, N.J. It became for me one early portal into a millennial strand in the mind-set of the West. And it taught me that a writer lacking history, however gifted, is an empty sack."
Cover of Just So Stories
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling · Buy on Amazon
"From one uncle, Kipling's "Just So Stories," with a gilt Indian swastika on the cover and Kipling's own ingenious illustrations."
Don Quixote
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"a fat orange-bright "Don Quixote," so seductive that to skip school I faked a sore throat to keep on reading."

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