What do you recommend?

“I recently read The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson. It has blown my socks off. It’s an incredible look at a very wide-ranging of essays about contemporary American culture. Calling it criticism puts it in a narrow category. Any reader interested in art or film or what’s in the news will be drawn in.”

Jess Row, author of

Your Face in Mine

This story was originally published December 14, 2014 at 7:00 AM with the headline "What do you recommend?."