Tag Archives: Literary
Returning to Earth
by Jim Harrison“[Harrison’s] books glisten with love of the world, and are as grounded as Thoreau’s in the particulars of American place—its rivers and thickets, its…
Rex
by José Manuel Prieto“Grand literary trompe l’oeil . . . the most glittering example of literary play to have emerged in recent memory . . . Rex…
Rhode Island Blues
by Fay Weldon“One of Fay Weldon’s great gifts is that she can present a serious truth lightly, tossed off as a joke. . . . Rhode…
The Zygote Chronicles
by Suzanne Finnamore“[Finnamore] pauses for some serious reflections, but doesn’t dwell too long on them, which is why the book’s emotional climax–the baby’s birth–hits home with…
Young Adam
by Alexander TrocchiThe magnum opus from a notorious Beat writer, reissued and repackaged with a new introduction.
Young Skins
by Colin BarrettFrom a major new talent in international fiction, whom Colm Tóibín has hailed as “exciting and stylistically adventurous,” comes a propulsive, urgent portrait of…
Zabelle
by Nancy Kricorian“Haunting and convincing . . . There’s a fairy-tale quality to the prose—a sense of wondrous and terrible things happening apart from human volition.”…
Worst Fears
by Fay Weldon“A hundred years hence, if people can still read, Weldon’s books will likely have the unblunted edge of Jane Austen, an unsentimental Baedeker guide…
Wrecked
by Charlotte RocheThought-provoking and explicit, Wrecked is a raw and taboo-breaking novel of sex and death that explores every detail of a submissive marriage.
The Yoga Teacher
by Alexandra Gray“Funny and incisive . . . smart, stylish, and one of a kind.” —Candace Bushnell
