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Tag Archives: Literary
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…
The Last Crossing
by Guy Vanderhaeghe“[Vanderhaeghe is] a Dickensian sensationalist. His flair for the lurid can be exquisite. . . . Epic novels can be loose, baggy monsters, but…
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby“Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.” –Allen Ginsberg
The Last Jew
by Yoram Kaniuk“Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel García Márquez,…
La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn
by Alain Robbe-Grillet“[La Maison de Rendez-vous is] a new literary entertainment, and a poetic, amusing, captivating book.” –The New York Times Book Review
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence“Nobody concerned with the novel in our century can afford not to read it.” –Lawrence Durrell
The Kindness of Enemies
by Leila AboulelaA riveting epic of love, betrayal, and war from New York Times Notable author and winner of the Caine Prize, Leila Aboulela, The Kindness…
Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto“Ms. Yoshimoto’s writing is lucid, earnest and disarming, as emotionally observant as Jane Smiley’s, as fluently readable as Anne Tyler’s. . . . [It]…
Koolaids
by Rabih Alameddine“Koolaids is the companion guide to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the history of the world ….
