Tag Archives: Literary
Sarah Thornhill
by Kate Grenville“A wrenching conclusion to a tough-hearted trilogy . . . Grenville shies away from nothing. . . . Exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation…
Say Her Name
by Francisco Goldman“Passionate and moving . . . [about] the miracle of the astonishing, spirited, deeply original young woman Francisco Goldman so adored . . . At times I felt the book…
The Scent of Your Breath
by Melissa P.“Panarello’s prerogative to write in the fine teenage tradition of bedroom-cured bravado and deep purple prose is left intact… [She] captures the beauty and absurdity…
The School on Heart’s Content Road
by Carolyn Chute“Chute is such an extraordinary, vivid, empathetic writer. . . . Like a ferocious bulletin from an alternate universe—tumbling, pell-mell, brilliant and strange—comes this explosive and discomfiting . . ….
Remnants of the First Earth
by Ray Young BearDazzlingly original, but with deep roots in his traditional Mesquakie culture, Young Bear is a master wordsmith poised with trickster-like aplomb between the ancient…
Repetition
by Alain Robbe-GrilletExhibits a sensibility as nervous and contemporary–not to mention witty–as that of any novelist working today. . . . Objects play as dramatic a…
Requiem
by Frances Itani“Remarkable . . . Requiem delicately probes the complex adjustments we make to live with our sorrows.. . . [A] perfectly modulated novel.” —Wendy…
Reservation Blues
by Sherman Alexie“The mystical complexity of Reservation Blues is as mesmerizing as the poetic power of Alexie’s writing. Alexie makes his story credible while playing fast…
The Return of the Caravels
by António Lobo Antunes“A twenty-first-century modernist heir to the narrative collage technique championed by such masters as Ferdinand C”line, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garc”a M”rquez, James Joyce, Vladimir…
The Return of the Player
by Michael TolkinThe sequel to the Hollywood classic The Player, and a satire on power, wealth, and family in the twenty-first century….
