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Tag Archives: Literary
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…
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…
