Tag Archives: Literary
Stern
by Bruce Jay Friedman“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…
Stet
by Diana Athill‘diana Athill has a delightful way with the English language–crisp, scrupulously honest, precise and without a micron of self-indulgence. . . . Luckily for…
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
by Alberto Manguel“A miniature Gothic horror story that Stevenson himself and even Henry James would have found chilling.” –Anna Mundow, The Boston Globe
St. Petersburg
by Andrey Biely“There is nothing like a ticking time bomb to supply fictional suspense, and perhaps no other writer has ever used the device more successfully…
A Spell of Winter
by Helen Dunmore“[Dunmore] beautifully captures paranoia, how it feels to wonder if people smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until…
Spilt Milk
by Chico BuarqueFrom one of Brazil’s most beloved figures and the prize-winning author of the acclaimed novel Budapest, Spilt Milk is an arresting story of love…
The Spirit Cabinet
by Paul Quarrington“Here is a magical novel . . . often funny, always surprising, and ultimately profound and very, very moving. . . . [Paul Quarrington]…
Splitting
by Fay Weldon“Adarkly comic portrait of one woman’s shattering response to divorce: the latest from an author rightly celebrated for writing witty cautionary tales about the…
Somersault
by Kenzaburo Oe“A power story about fanaticism and faith. . . . [Somersault] shows a Nobel master at work in a huge new novel that takes…
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
by Porochista Khakpour“Punchy conversation, vivid detail, sharp humor . . . Khakpour brings her characters vividly to life; their flaws and feints at intimacy feel poignantly…
