Tag Archives: Literary

Up Through the Water

by Darcey Steinke

“Beautifully written . . . a seamless and almost instinctive prose that often reads more like poetry than fiction.” –Robert Olmstead, The New York…

Uphill Walkers

by Madeleine Blais

A spirited and moving memoir about the enduring power of family love by the author of the national best-seller In These Girls, Hope Is…

Vacation

by Deb Olin Unferth

“Unferth is one of the most daring and entertaining writers in America today. She is an artist who knows that every sentence is an…

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 Alameddine

From 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…

Umbrella

by Will Self

A history of the entire twentieth-century’s technological searchlight refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution.

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