What are you reading now?

• After This, by Alice McDermott
• Other People's Trades, by Primo Levi

Four books you would take to a deserted island

• Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
• Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
• Journal of a Solitude, by May Sarton