The Impatient Reader | The American 250
Rainey KnudsonHome of The American 250: 250 words on 250 objects, throughout 2026. Ultra-short entries on art and other things.
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112. Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Both capitalism and communism invoke freedom as their ultimate goal, and they both fail. So how should we proceed? Is true freedom even attainable? These slippery questions lie at the heart of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s story of a...
111. Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
It is winter in the New World, and a tiny European fort with a toehold on the continent is dying, its transplanted inhabitants withering from starvation and disease. From this hellhole, a teenage servant girl escapes into the wilderness. He...
110. Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
The central conceit of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is that there was literally a train running underground, shepherding slaves to different versions of freedom. This fantastical premise works; the actual history is so surrea...
109. Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Donna Tartt is best known for her first and third novels, The Secret History and The Goldfinch. But her second novel, The Little Friend, stayed with me over the years in a way the other two did not. It’s the story of Harriet Dufresnes, a 12...
108. Lincoln in the Bardo
Dear readers, this week I’m featuring books I love by living American authors. Later in the year I’ll probably also do a series of books by the departed. This is a fitting segue to our first book, George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo. Stro...
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I keep it short. Art and other things. Author of The MFAH 100; founder of Glasstire: Texas visual art online.
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