Tag Archives: Literary

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

The 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…

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

by Ivan Klíma

A 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,…

Voyageurs

by Margaret Elphinstone

“With grandly accessible language and brilliant strokes Margaret Elphinstone re-creates a place within which we learn much of the capability of the human heart…

The Voyeur

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

“I can think of no other writer who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic. In the subtlest, slyest, and most sheerly delightful way…

Violencia!

by Bruce Jay Friedman

“[Friedman’s] writing is so funny – and deceptively effortless – critics often liken it to a stand-up comedy routine.”–The New York Times…

The Veins of the Ocean

by Patricia Engel

The extraordinary new novel from award-winning author Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean is a heartrending story of one woman’s devotion to her…