Tag Archives: Literary
Valiant Gentlemen
by Sabina Murray…bore witness to so much of the history we live with now, brought to vivid, thrilling life here. This novel is made out of history but is every bit a…
The Unknown Terrorist
by Richard Flanagan“In this stunning and brilliant and roaring book he shouts the question loudly to be heard in every nation ranged against brooding Bin Laden…
An Unnecessary Woman
by Rabih AlameddineFrom the author of the international bestseller The Hakawati comes an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old “unnecessary” woman with a past shaped…
The Ultimate Intimacy
by Ivan Klíma‘suspense fiction of the highest order, The Ultimate Intimacy belongs on the shelf beside Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. It is a…
Under Radar
by Michael Tolkin“Ambitious . . . . Tolkin is taking on the shades of literature’s foremost anatomists of ambiguously motivated murder: Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment…
Under the Roofs of Paris
by Henry Miller“Vintage Miller! . . . In terms of wit and audacity, it is probably his most successful work.” —Terry Southern
The Undertaking
by Audrey Magee“A powerful creation . . . profoundly moving. Ms. Magee’s willingness to examine the darkest elements of the conflict in a novel that still…
Twilight of the Eastern Gods
by Ismail KadareOne of the earliest novels from the Man Booker International Prize winner, Twilight of the Eastern Gods explores the Kafkaesque position of the writer…
Two Against One
by Frederick Barthelme“Barthelme achieves what Chekov spoke of as grace, the most gained with the least exertion. He leads us through a shattered set of lives,…
