Tag Archives: Literary
Wavemaker II
by Mary-Beth Hughes“Hughes is a writer of dexterity and imagination, with a great feel for sensory images. . . . [Hughes] guides us into a skillfully…
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
by James Meek“Meek’s rich voice and eye for detail make Kellas much more than a stock character . . . in its unsettling last pages, We…
Walking to Hollywood
by Will Self“Self’s ultimate vision . . . is described in dazzling bursts of verbal pyrotechnics. . . . The language here is as rich as Vladimir Nabokov’s, the rage as deep as Jonathan Swift’s.” —Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe…
Wanting
by Richard Flanagan“Flanagan sets his novel in the wilds of nineteenth-century Tasmania and evokes its inhabitants with exquisite precision. . . . An entirely unified meditation…
War Dances
by Sherman Alexie…substance abuse, medical neglect, 9/11, Official Narrative vs. What Really Happened, settler religion vs. native spirituality, marketing, shopping, and war, war, war. All the heartbreaking ways we don’t live now—this is the caring, eye-opening beauty of this rollicking, bittersweet gem of a book.” —PEN/Faulkner judge Al Young on War Dances…
The Warriors
by Sol Yurick“It seems to me the best novel of its kind I’ve ever read, an altogether perfect achievement. I’m sure that to many it will…
Wash
by Margaret Wrinkle“A masterly literary work . . . Wrinkle’s novel does not allow us to draw easy correlations but invites us to consider the painful…
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
by Ivan KlímaA powerful, important novel about the struggle between the ideal and the temptations of freedom.
The Voices
by Susan Elderkin“A reader can feel [Elderkin’s] human characters being ripped from the earth, a reader can feel the children being ripped form their parent, and…
Voltaire in Exile
by Ian Davidson“Davidson . . . has taken on the story of the last Voltaire. . . . In 1753, at the beginning of Davidson’s story,…
