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Reading Life: Books for the Ages
By Sven Birkerts
Graywolf, 191 pages, $16 paper
Sven Birkerts is a wonderful literary critic and with this collection of 12 intimate essays about returning to favorite books of his past — ranging from “The Good Soldier” to “Lolita” — inspires readers to follow him in a journey of discovery. “We undertake the gradual focused exploration, nuance by nuance, of their meanings, their implications,” he writes. “(W)e follow out the strands that mysteriously connect the worlds of another with the unformulated stuff of the self.”
