Tag Archives: Literary

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 Roche

Thought-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

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

by Barry Hannah

“A literary event . . . A new voice of the South whose characters roamed as far as Asia and who were citizens of…

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 Acampora

A 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,…