Daniel Libeskind is the world-renowned architect who created the master plan for reconstruction at the World Trade Center site. Breaking Ground, his book about the project, has just been published.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Penguin, $7). A great adventure that appealed to me when I was a kid reading it in Polish, and one that has held up through a number of rereadings in English.
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin (out of print). Brilliant ruminations on history and the enigma of time. Somewhere between poetry and philosophy, between imagination and scholarship. It’s a book written from the depths of Jewish tradition and has a continued relevance to the turmoil of the world today.
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The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (Penguin, $13). A haunting series of stories that relate to a vanished world. The stories are about families, strangers, and changing seasons. Even in translation, they sear the soul.
The Bible. Any book that survives this amount of time is worth reading, but this one in particular remains unsurpassed. It is a book that I have encouraged my children to read each year, and we debate it endlessly.
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (Penguin, $11). A wonderfully inventive journey through life. The book, written in Dublin in the 18th century, remains one of the most avant-garde books. Through its structure and literary levels, it opens new horizons.
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