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Tag Archives: Literary
Stars Screaming
by John Kaye“Kaye describes the city in richly evocative detail, suffusing it with real feeling. . . . His Los Angeles is replete with awful happenings,…
State Counsellor
by Boris AkuninFrom the writer who reinvented the Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero…
Steps
by Jerzy Kosinski“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English…
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]…
