'There is no such thing as the indispensable book or author, and the world would be exactly the same if Kafka, Proust, Faulkner, Mann, Nabokov and Borges had never existed.'
One essay from Javier Marias on hating The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Why? You'll have to read the thing. Plus artwork by Tucker Nichols and Emily Robertson.