Tag Archives: Literary

The Kindness of Enemies

by Leila Aboulela

A 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 ….

Kornwolf

by Tristan Egolf

“The voice is unforgettable, at times attaining the incantatory power of Whitman’s ‘barbaric yawp.’” –New Yorker

The Keepsake

by Kirsty Gunn

“To crack open Kirsty Gunn’s second novel is to fumble unwittingly with the lid of Pandora’s box. . . . Its figures of speech, lovely on the page, turn unholy once they’ve taken on life . . . [but] go ahead, open it, it’s worth the risk.” –The New York…

Kill Hole

by Jamake Highwater

“An extremely literate compelling fiction about timeless human dilemmas. . . . A Native American answer not only to Kafka’s The Trial but Thomas…

A Killing in This Town

by Olympia Vernon

“Viscerally moving . . . A fugue of folk idiom, blues, biblical diction and surreal imagery makes for lots of atmosphere.” –Publishers Weekly

Junky

by William S. Burroughs

Burroughs’s first and most autobiographical novel is one of the most unflinching and insightful works on addiction ever written—a cult classic and an influence…

Kamchatka

by Marcelo Figueras

A man recalls his experience as a ten-year-old boy hiding in a safe house during Argentina’s “Dirty War” in this commanding and spellbinding novel…

Kate Caterina

by William Riviere

“A masterpiece of a tour through Mussolini’s Italy . . . If the mark of a great novel is that readers will miss the…