Tag Archives: Literary
The Third Brother
by Nick McDonell“The pacing . . . is perfect. His descriptions of various things—the cafés on Khao San Road; the desperate yearning of the young for…
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs
by William T. Vollmann“And certainly no one writing today of any generation has more news to relate than Vollmann, a rough-edged beast who has been slouching toward…
Terraplane
by Jack Womack“Womack . . . performs feats of brilliance on many levels. . . . He succeeds in balancing blistering social commentary with shrewd literary…
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness
by Christoph Ransmayr“Christoph Ransmayr has written a curious novel that conveys the distancing, the numbness, of Arctic. . . . Ransmayr’s real protagonist is obsession itself,…
They’re Cows, We’re Pigs
by Carmen Boullosa“A word-drunk picaresque novel . . . Boullosa’s vivid and visceral descriptions provide hallucinatory images of the pirates’ raping and pillaging, their battles in…
Tell
by Frances ItaniThe mesmerizing follow-up to Itani’s award-winning Deafening, Tell charts the year 1919, when “the boys” came home from the Great War.
The Temple
by Stephen Spender“The Temple is a wonderfully immediate and truthful book, and no doubt this is the way it was in Germany and in the lives…
Temples of Delight
by Barbara Trapido“As lush and original as it is playful and ironic, Temples of Delight is a grown-up version of an adolescent fantasy. . . ….
Ten Men
by Alexandra Gray‘smart and stylish. . . . Remarkable in the vast sea of “chick lit” for its smarts, flair and honesty. . . . Gray has given us a thoughtful character who moves through the world with poise and grace–but not so much of either that we can’t relate to her….
