Tag Archives: Literary
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh NguyenA startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in…
T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.
by Sanyika Shakur“Shakur produces a visceral and strikingly real portrayal of gang life in Los Angeles, replete with sudden and inexplicable violence, revenge, betrayal, ostentatious living,…
Tabloid Dreams
by Robert Olen Butler“Genius . . . Turning the lurid third-person titles of his stories into direct testimony from the principles, Mr. Butler often transforms the material’s…
The Summer He Didn’t Die
by Jim Harrison“Harrison has proved to be one of our finest storytellers. His new collection, The Summer He Didn’t Die, gives us more from the master. . . . These new novellas are urgent and contemporary, displaying his marvelous gifts for compression and idiosyncratic language.” —Jane Ciabattari, Los Angeles Times…
The Summer of the Bear
by Bella Pollen“Affecting . . . Riveting . . . A thrilling tale that unravels mysteries of the human heart, The Summer of the Bear is…
Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains
by Susan Elderkin“Elderkin has crafted a complex, heartbreaking tale, entwining the lives of quirky characters in an improbable but compelling narrative illustrating the agonizing potential of…
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
by Will Self“Brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers.” –Time…
Swimming in the Volcano
by Bob Shacochis“Swimming in the Volcano provides a feast; it is a book heady with language and thick with story . . . [leaving] the reader…
Story of My Life
by Jay McInerney“[McInerney’s] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture is even more powerfully evident in The Story of My Life . ….
Straight White Male
by John NivenA “high-octane novel of excess” featuring “the most lovable rogue since John Self in Money” (Ian Rankin), Straight White Male is a hilarious new…
