92Y's Read By

George Saunders on his selection: There are a few passages in literature that I go back to whenever I’m feeling out of t... Read more

Roxane Gay on her selection: There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a black woman is being introduced in ... Read more

"Once upon a time, you say, there were germs with horns. They lived in the toilet and could only be defeated by gallons ... Read more

Rachel Cusk on her selection: Tennyson’s In Memoriam crops up in the dullest Victorian stretches of an English Literatur... Read more

Billy Collins on his selection: I chose poems from William Matthews (1942-1997) and Thomas Lux (1946-2017) because I wan... Read more

Nicole Krauss on her selection: I recently finished a collection of short stories, and while writing it I sometimes turn... Read more

Colm Tóibín on his selection: When W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory met at the end of the nineteenth century, she, thirteen y... Read more

Jonathan Franzen on his selection: Vasily Grossman's towering achievement, Life and Fate, is a product of his unique acc... Read more

Louise Erdrich on her selections: We have become isolated and strangely passive in many ways during this pandemic. These... Read more

Terrance Hayes on his selection: I'm reading two poems by Wanda Coleman to celebrate the April publication of her select... Read more

Elif Batuman on her selection: I chose to read from Epictetus because he has always made me feel better at times when I ... Read more

Gary Shteyngart on his selection: Nothing has ever made me happier than reading Mo Willems to my kid. In these troubled ... Read more

Jorie Graham on Linda Gregg: Reading Linda Gregg’s poems is a unique experience because not only does one hear Linda’s v... Read more

Lauren Groff on her selection: I've long loved "Sredni Vashtar" for its fury and wildness, and for its profound understa... Read more

Meg Wolitzer on her selection: I chose this story because it’s such an intuitive and ruefully funny close-up of a marria... Read more

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on their selections: Chekhov’s story “The Beggar” was written in 1887, when Chekh... Read more

Neil Gaiman on his selection: I chose this story because I cannot get it out of my head. Sometimes it feels like every a... Read more

Michael Chabon on his selection: Reading Ray Bradbury’s “The Rocket Man” for the first time—around the age of ten or ele... Read more

On Adam Gopnik's selection: “'How are we to live in an atomic age?' I am tempted to reply: 'Why, as you would have lived... Read more

Hisham Matar on his selection: In 2016, when I finished writing my book, The Return, which chronicles my return to Libya... Read more