“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
— Jhumpa Lahiri
The Reading List 2025
The Fall of the House of Usher
I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Call for the Dead
He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man
John le Carré