
Milkman
by Anna Burns
MADE-UP
I usually watch the Booker Prize unfold with nothing at stake. But this year I picked up Milkman: within ten pages I was in love, and when I saw it on the shortlist, I finally understood how my husban... (Liz)

The Order of the Day
by Éric Vuillard
TRUE
The Prix Goncourt is France's highest award for fiction, and the most recent recipient was Éric Vuillard for The Order of the Day. It's an interesting choice for at least three reasons. First, it's re... (James)

To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
by Terrance Hayes
TRUE
Poetry is such a compressed art that for me it often requires some space, some context, in which to breathe. Terrance Hayes has taken an entire book to put the work—really a single poem, the appropria... (Tom)
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