Jhumpa Lahiri

The award-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and other works highlights some of her literary touchstones.

The United States of Paranoia

An engaging and bizarre history of America’s most notorious conspiracy theories, from the suspicious assassination attempt of President Andrew Jackson to the panicked Red Scare of the mid-20th century.

Ticket to Fly

September 17: “The ward is a factory for the Combine. It’s for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is.”