Tag Archives: Literary

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

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 Kadare

One 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,…

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 Knight

The 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…