Tag Archives: 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 Itani

The 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….

The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

A 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…