Favourite books

The Bible

Tacitus, Annals

The Tale of Genji

The Divine Comedy

King Lear

Anthony and Cleopatra

The Tempest

Pride and Prejudice

Crime and Punishment

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Chekhov, Stories

The Sound and the Fury

The Makioka Sisters

One Hundred Years of Soltude

Morrison, Song of Solomon

Midnight's Children

Norman Rush, Mating

Pauline Kael, For Keeps

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

Robert Christgau, Grown Up All Wrong

Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan