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Tag Archives: Literary
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…
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 YurickThe basis for the 1979 cult classic film and the musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, coming to Broadway in spring 2027
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…
