Tag Archives: Literary
Tokyo Cancelled
by Rana Dasgupta“[This] brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel . . . harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer. . . . There is something marvelously…
Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore
by Ray Loriga“Loriga’s gorgeous, enigmatic new novel . . . could be described in terms of its premise . . . but such a description cheats…
Tolstoy
by Henri Troyat“This . . . biography of him is the fullest, most objective, and the liveliest . . . the story of his life reads…
The Ticket That Exploded
by William S. Burroughs“In Burroughs’ hands, writing reverts to acts of magic, as though he were making some enormous infernal encyclopedia of all the black impulses and…
Tiger, Tiger
by Galaxy Craze“[An] exquisite new novel . . . Craze’s gorgeous prose is all in the incisive detail. What emerges from Tiger, Tiger is a skillfully…
Timebends
by Arthur MillerThe revealing and deeply moving autobiography of a great American playwright—and a chronicle of our time.
Three Exemplary Novels
by Miguel de UnamunoThree of Miguel de Unamuno’s best-known novels that probe the elemental forces of human personality.
Three Novels
by Samuel Beckett“More powerful and important than Godot. . . . Mr. Beckett seeks to empty the novel of its usual recognizable objects—plot, situation, characters—and yet…
This Is Your Life
by John O'Farrell“A splendid satire on our celebrity hungry age. The only problem is that O’Farrell has written such funny dialogue for Jimmy that it is…
The Thief’s Journal
by Jean Genet“One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper. . . . Genet has dramatized the story…
