Tag Archives: Literary

Shark

by Will Self

Following the Booker-shortlisted Umbrella, Shark is a mind-bending novel of the intersection of pathology and war, set in the 1970s but pivoting around the…

She May Not Leave

by Fay Weldon

“One of England’s most superb novelists, could best be described as a 21st-century Thackery. . . . Weldon’s sharp wit and incisive skewering of…

Sexus

by Henry Miller

“At times uproariously funny . . . may be Miller’s masterpiece.” —Choice

The Shadow Catcher

by Andrzej Szczypiorski

The story of a boy who comes of age as the world around him begins to fall apart, The Shadow Catcher is a richly…

Shadow-Box

by Antonia Logue

“That three such wildly contrasting characters can coexist in the same novel is indicative of the era’s (and the author’s) bracing audacity. . ….

Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom

by Charles Beauclerk

“This is a book for anyone who loves Shakespeare. . . . Three cheers for Mr. Beauclerk’s daring to explore one of the most…

Serve the People!

by Yan Lianke

Banned in China, Serve the People! is the sexy, satirical sensation chronicling a love affair between the wife of a powerful Communist army commander and her…

Sewer, Gas & Electric

by Matt Ruff

“Ruff is a protean talent. . . . Very much in the absurdist tradition of Pynchon, Heller, Robbins, and Vonnegut, this is a mad…

The Sex Offender

by Matthew Stadler

“Equal parts Kafka, Burgess, and Brazil, Matthew Stadler’s novel is beautifully morbid. The eloquent, florid prose in which Mr. Uh Uh describes his passions…