By: Joshua Glenn

Pity the poor semio­naut, who “reads” the world phen­omeno­logically.

By: Patrick Cates

Marcus’s plain black loafers — from About a Boy.

By: Joshua Glenn

Alfred Lambert’s prehistoric golf shoes — from The Corrections.

By: Joshua Glenn

Moldorf’s patent-leather shoes — from Tropic of Cancer.

By: Joshua Glenn

He was a martyr in the cause of absurdism and ’pataphysics.

By: Joshua Glenn

A collector’s guide!

By: Joshua Glenn

Tom Joad’s “army last” shoes — from The Grapes of Wrath.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ignatius O’Reilly’s suede desert boots — from A Confederacy of Dunces.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ed Gentry’s white tennis shoes — from Deliverance.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chaplain Tappman’s rubber-soled shoes — from Catch-22.

By: Joshua Glenn

Stephen Dedalus’ broadtoed boots — from Ulysses.

By: Joshua Glenn

His sci-fi was notable for being pastoral and nostalgic.

By: Lucy Sante

He was a great writer and a cautionary tale.

By: Amanda French

This pedigreed, highbrow dystopian was a godfather of the Sixties.

By: Matthew Battles

The life of ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985) is as an impenetrable forest, tree ravaging tree in a primordial war of the word. Himself the subject of more books than most authors can reasonably hope to write, […]