Tag Archives: Literary
White Ghost Girls
by Alice Greenway“A sensual, haunting story of sibling love, danger and infatuation with the unknown. . . . This is a brave and artful book, not less powerful for its economy, but perhaps even more so because of it.” —Vendela Vida, New York Times Book Review…
What It Takes to Get to Vegas
by Yxta Maya Murray“In What It Takes to Get to Vegas the contrapuntal viewpoints–defiant and self-doubting, calculating and fuzzy-headed–are combined into a single stream of consciousness. Frenetic, bittersweet, and often hilarious, Rita’s voice is at once specifically American in its rhythms and syntax, and indisputably female. . . . Rita Zapata is who…
What to Do About the Solomons
by Bethany BallFrom a remarkable new voice in fiction comes a transporting debut, a hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles…
What We Are
by Peter Nathaniel Malae“A rollercoaster ride inside the haunted house of American multi cultural sin and shame. Violent and smart and funny. I am excited by this…
When to Walk
by Rebecca Gowers“Gowers’s debut novel is a mercurial delight, a humorous romp spiked with the unpredictable and the darkly comic. But it is when Gowers ignores…
The Weight of Numbers
by Simon Ings“[The Weight of Numbers] blends excellent prose with innumerable characters in an insanely complicated plot, with important global issues sprinkled in, and it all…
Well
by Matthew McIntosh“An astonishingly sharp and satisfying debut. . . . [McIntosh] is the real thing—a tremendously gifted and supple prose hand, recounting all manner of…
Wetlands
by Charlotte Roche“With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel’s eighteen-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned…
What Are You Like?
by Anne Enright“An eloquent writer . . . dazzlingly funny. . . . For Enright the recognizable dimensions of time, speech, and thought . . . are fluid and interchangeable, while metaphors often become the things they stand for. . . . [A] very powerful story.” —Penelope Fitzgerald, The London Review of…
Water from the Well
by Myra McLarey“An intricate weave of lives that run from 1900 to the 1970s . . . the characters move to a kind of narrative music…
