underground reading
We present to you a photo project called 'The Underground New York Public Library', the heroes of which are fans of 'underground' reading among the passengers of the New York subway.
New York is a city of contrasts, and people of different appearance and social status, but also with different reading tastes, live and side by side with each other. Photographer Urit Ben-Haim spoke about the preferences of ordinary Americans in literature in her project.
After looking through dozens of photographs, you will be surprised, or perhaps not surprised, to find in the hands of New Yorkers the works of some Russian classics: Tolstoy, Nabokov, Bulgakov, Dostoevsky and even Kharms. They are reading!
(Total 45 photos)
1. 'Disappearance of the Elephant', Haruki Murakami
2. 'Pale Flame', Vladimir Nabokov
3. “Pinch Hit,” by Tim Green
4. 'The Master and Margarita', Mikhail Bulgakov
5. 'A Gift from Asher the Lion', Chaim Potok
6. 'Steve Jobs', Walter Isaacson
7. 'The Jungle Book', Rudyard Kipling
8. 'The Left Hand of Darkness', Ursula Le Guin
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
10. 'The Talented Mr Ripley', Patricia Highsmith
11. 'Doctor is sick', Anthony Burgess
12. 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories', Ernest Hemingway
13. 'Mists of Avalon', Marion Zimmer Bradley
14. 'Source', Ayn Rand
15. 'Talmud'
16. 'The Catcher in the Rye', Jerome D. Salinger
17. 'Castle', Franz Kafka
18. "The Hum and the Shiver", by Alex Bledsoe
19. 'Sharp Objects', Gillian Flynn
20. "Sexing the Cherry", Janet Winterson
21. 'Politics', Aristotle
22. 'Naked Lunch', William Burroughs
23. 'Mary, Mary', James Patterson
24. 'Notes from the Underground', Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
25. 'Julius Caesar', William Shakespeare
26. 'Cases', Daniil Kharms
27. 'In a Secluded Place', Dorothy B. Hughes
28. 'Hallucinations', Oliver Sachs
29. 'And Everything Illuminated', Jonathan Safran Foer
30. 'Frankenstein', Mary Shelley
31. 'Even Cowgirls Get Sad Sometimes', Tom Robbins
32. 'The Fallen', Lauren Keith
33. 'Ender's Game', Orson Scott Card
34. The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
35. 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Cotton', David Sedaris
36. 'Pounds of dashing in Paris and London', George Orwell
37. 'Don Quixote', Miguel de Cervantes
38. 'Suffocation', Chuck Palahniuk
39. 'The Night Begins', Michael Cunningham
40. 'American', Susan Choi
41. 'Breakfast of Champions', Kurt Vonnegut
42. 'Black Spring', Henry Miller
43. 'Wild Rose', Iris Murdoch
44. 'Nude for you', Sylvia Day
45. 'Atlas Shrugged', Ayn Rand