Tag Archives: Literary
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…
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…
