Tag Archives: Literary
The World Beneath
by Cate Kennedy“Written in precise and singing prose, [Kennedy’s] powerful first novel . . . [is] a work of mythic depth, lyrical description, and gripping suspense.”…
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it…
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
by Bob Shacochis“Engrossing . . . a soaring literary epic about the forces that have driven us to the 9/11 age . . . always so…
The Wonder Garden
by Lauren AcamporaA keen and brilliant observer of the strangeness that is American suburbia. Acampora joins the ranks of writers like John Cheever and Tom Perrotta…
The Wonder House
by Justine Hardy“A haunting tragedy of love, beauty and bounty lost . . . The budding passion of The Wonder House cleaves closer to the tragic romance of Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things or even the cultural dalliances of E.M. Forster than to the clichéd forbidden loves of Bollywood.” —Elizabeth Kiem,…
Wish You Were Here
by Stewart O'Nan“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos,…
The Witch of Hebron
by James Howard KunstlerThe best-selling author of The Long Emergency returns with a gripping sequel to his novel World Made by Hand, which Alan Cheuse of National…
Witches on the Road Tonight
by Sheri Holman“Holman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences…
With Your Crooked Heart
by Helen Dunmore“A briskly paced page-turner . . . Dunmore’s rich writing–by turns muscular and poetic–makes With Your Crooked Heart impossible to put down.” –The Washington…
A Woman Run Mad
by John L'Heureux“Breathtaking . . . one of the most intense reading experiences I’ve had in recent memory . . . Impossible to put down.” –The…
