Claire Messud’s books include When the World Was Steady and The Emperor’s Children. Her novel The Woman Upstairs will be published in April 2013. (February 2013)
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Germany: Surviving the Whispers
February 21, 2013
The Life of Objects
by Susanna Moore
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‘Thank God You’ll Never Be Beautiful’
November 22, 2012
Astray
by Emma Donoghue
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The Elephant in the Room
May 10, 2012
The Artist of Disappearance
by Anita Desai
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On a Mystery Voyage with Michael Ondaatje
December 22, 2011
The Cat’s Table
by Michael Ondaatje
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The Secret Sharer
July 14, 2011
Open City
by Teju Cole
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An Experiment with Wonder
April 28, 2011
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories
by Charles Baxter
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Life Exactly as It Is Lived
July 15, 2010
The Collected Stories
by Deborah Eisenberg
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The Fate of Sara and Dara
April 29, 2010
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
by Shahriar Mandanipour, translated from the Farsi by Sara Khalili
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In Evin Prison
December 3, 2009
My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran
by Haleh Esfandiari
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Come Rain, Come Shine
October 22, 2009
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Land Divers
July 16, 2009
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Aiming to Please
May 28, 2009
Brooklyn
by Colm Tóibín
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Witnesses to a Mystery
November 20, 2008
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
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Blood Relations
July 17, 2008
The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich
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Signs of Struggle
February 14, 2008
Cheating at Canasta
by William Trevor
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When Life Caught Up With Him
July 19, 2007
Be Near Me
by Andrew O'Hagan
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A Case of Development
January 11, 2007
The Lay of the Land
by Richard Ford
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The Way We Lived Then
May 11, 2006
The Last of Her Kind
by Sigrid Nunez
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Fairy Tale in Reverse
May 9, 2002
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
by Malika Oufkir, with Michèle Fitoussi, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
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Heartburn
October 19, 1995
The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine
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Revealing the Real Iran
January 14, 2010
When I landed at boarding school in Boston in the fall of 1980—from a public school in Toronto, another world—I assumed the Iranian girls knew the ropes better than I did. Posh New England culture was utterly alien to me; but how much more so must it have been to my fellow boarders lately of Tehran? Aware of the recent revolution—even at fourteen, one couldn’t not be—I nevertheless was unable to relate the girl brushing her teeth beside me in the dorm bathroom to mass demonstrations or the then ongoing hostage crisis half a world away. I never asked the Iranians a single question about their histories: it was tacitly accepted that it was too delicate a subject and, by force of silence, too remote from our placid world of emerald lawns and peeling white columns. What, I now wonder, must the Iranian girls have thought?
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Claire Messud Reads "Land Divers"
June 29, 2009