Tag Archives: Literary
Two Guys from Verona
by James Kaplan“Kaplan’s novel is a view of suburban life as David Lynch might imagine it: as banal as a mini-mall, yet seething with anxiety, eroticism…
The Typist
by Michael KnightThe most ambitious novel to date from the award-winning Southern writer Michael Knight, about a green young American posted to the strange realm of…
Try
by Dennis Cooper“Written in Mr. Cooper’s taut, chillingly ironic prose. . . Try is about a world under severe emotional repression–a fascistic world of pure sadistic power. . . . As improbable…
Tsotsi
by Athol Fugard“In lean yet lyrical prose . . . [Athol Fugard] uncannily insinuates himself into the skins of the oppressed majority and articulates its rage…
Turbulence
by Jia Pingwa“A rare, richly detailed, and insightful account of life in a Chinese village during the tumultuous decade of post-Mao reforms. With earthy language and…
Turn of Mind
by Alice LaPlante“[Like] Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One—a dread-filled, unputdownable page-turner . . . Skillfully written in the memory-loss first person, the book combines murder mystery…
Turning Japanese
by David Mura“In his memoir Turning Japanese , the poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient…
Turpentine
by Spring Warren“With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, Spring Warren brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of…
Twelve
by Nick McDonell“Nick McDonell’s Twelve is an astonishing rush of a first novel, all heat and ice and inexorable narrative drive—the kind of novel you finish…
Twelve Bar Blues
by Patrick Neate“Entertaining. . . . An anything-goes melting-pot hybrid of Ragtime and White Teeth. . . . Twelve Bar Blues blows with all its might…
