Tag Archives: Literary
Let’s Put the Future Behind Us
by Jack Womack“Remarkable . . . Mr. Womack has enmeshed his character in a Moscow landscape as absurd and scary as the phantasmagoric Moscow in Mikhail…
Leaving Las Vegas
by John O'Brien“A brutal and unflinching portrait of the low life in the city of high rollers, Leaving Las Vegas is both shocking and curiously exhilarating….
Leaving Tabasco
by Carmen Boullosa“Raucously imagined . . . a meditation on family, community and storytelling. . . . In her hard-won wisdom and courage, Delmira is ….
Legends of the Fall
by Jim Harrison“Jim Harrison stands high among the writers of his generation. This book is rich, alive, and shatteringly visceral. A triumph.” —New Yorker
Leila
by J.P. DonleavyThis sequel to The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman finds Darcy desperately departing Dublin as a pauper. But once home amid the leaking, bat-infested…
Lempriere’s Dictionary
by Lawrence Norfolk“Norfolk’s ferocious, greedy originality of angle and expression evokes continuous astonishment.” –The Times Literary Supplement
Lenin’s Kisses
by Yan LiankeA fiercely satirical story of greed and corruption from “one of China’s most successful fiction writers” (The New York Times).
The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna
by Dagoberto Gilb“His language is direct and strikingly honest, and yet he is also able to illuminate life’s transforming moments with a delicate appreciation of their…
The Last World
by Christoph Ransmayr“A brilliant exercise in alternative literary history . . . Mr. Ransmayr’s book is all of a piece–intensely visualized, dense with magical images, and…
The Lap of Luxury
by William Hamilton“A brilliant site-survey of contemporary Manhattan manners. Perhaps more importantly, [Hamilton] has written a book that makes one laugh out loud for minutes at a time. . . . He writes in a fashion similar to, and every bit as successful as, Tom Wolfe.” –The Wall Street Journal…
