Australian literature

Patrick White’s Voss: The Desert as a Test of the Soul

A man sets out to walk across a continent, and the country he is really crossing is himself. Patrick White's Voss turns an expedition into a test of the soul, where the will to conquer and the willingness to be humbled prove to be the same motion. Voss is a remarkable book.

Patrick White's Voss rendered as a mid-century painted book cover, the title in torn-paper letters filled with faint handwriting against a swirling yellow sun over a blue sky and a pale desert horizon.

Summer Reading List for High Schoolers: 16 Books Worth Your Time

Most high school summer reading lists are the same list, mostly American, mostly the same handful of authors. This one is built differently: 16 books from Senegal to Soviet Russia to Mexico, organized by grade level, that make the world feel larger.

A lone deer standing in a sunlit golden barley field at golden hour, bordered by green woodland and rolling hills under a soft summer sky.