Topic
Afterlife
3 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
3 posts
Where to Start with Alice Sebold: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Alice Sebold — how to approach The Lovely Bones, her essential debut novel narrated from heaven. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Dante Alighieri: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dante Alighieri — how to approach the Divine Comedy. A complete reading guide to the medieval Italian poet and his Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Books Like Lincoln in the Bardo: Grief, the Afterlife, and Experimental Form
George Saunders's novel of Abraham Lincoln grieving his dead son in a graveyard full of ghosts refusing to move on won the Booker Prize and redefined what a novel can be. These books share its formal experimentation, its tenderness toward the dead, and its belief that grief is political.
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