17 Best Books to Read This Month
Conniving cabals, obsessive lovers, intrepid teens.
14 of 17
Sex and Rage
By Eve Babitz
256 pages;
Counterpoint
Amid the glitz of 1960s and '70s Hollywood, Jacaranda goes from beach bum to Champagne-swilling It girl—until one night, after downing 14 white ladies, the spell wears off. In language that coils and surprises (a man named Etienne is "built like a lizard or a saluki"), this reissued fiction classic shimmers like a Santa Monica sunset.
— Leigh Haber, Taylor Lannamann and Joelle Milman
Published 08/19/2017
