Tag Archives: Literary

Winkie

by Clifford Chase

“Winkie offers readers a sort of odd, outrageous delight. A verve and a nostalgia . . . that it is no crime to indulge.”…

Winterton Blue

by Trezza Azzopardi

“Azzopardi has always created disturbing, painterly images of her characters’ surroundings and memories . . . In Winterton Blue, Azzopardi again deploys her signature…

Who’s Who in Hell

by Robert Chalmers

“Thoroughly engaging, delightful and very funny. . . . [Who’s Who in Hell] is a coming-of-age story set in a post-Thatcherite world. . ….

Whore

by Nelly Arcan

“A rhapsody of self-deprecation with notes of anger, defiance, and pragmatism mixed in . . . This is a provocative and mesmerizing story.” –Lisa…

Where We Have Hope

by Andrew Meldrum

“Gripping . . . Meldrum provides names, faces and photographs of the players involved. . . . His firsthand experience of the horrors adds…

The White City

by Karolina Ramqvist

A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize, The White City is a novel “with a vulnerability that brings to mind Cormac…

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 Ball

From 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…