Tag Archives: Literary
Joe Speedboat
by Tommy WieringaA “witty, thoughtful, and surprisingly tender” (The Independent) novel about two boys on the far side of trauma and the improbable friendship that grants…
John Saturnall’s Feast
by Lawrence NorfolkTwelve years in the writing, John Saturnall’s Feast is a masterpiece from one of England’s greatest living historical novelists—and Norfolk’s most accessible book to…
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
by Patricia Engel“Astonishing . . . A love story that just won’t quit.” —Edwidge Danticat…
Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band
by Enrico Brizzi“The excitement surrounding this book lies in its fervent pace and in its intuitive, stylistic freshness.” –Le Monde
Jam on the Vine
by LaShonda BarnettAn explosive debut novel that chronicles the life of a trailblazing African American woman journalist through the start of the twentieth century.
An Invisible Spectator
by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno“A gripping page-turner. Sawyer-Lau”anno’s biography is better than brilliant, it is Bowlesian: exhaustively researched and impeccably written.” ––Mark Dery, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Indian Killer
by Sherman Alexie“Vigorous prose . . . haunted, surprising characters . . . flashes of sardonic wit . . . [ Indian Killer is] a meditative…
Infrared
by Nancy Huston“Huston shows her mastery of complicated structure, wide culural knowledge, and brilliant, assured portraiture.” —Michael Basilieres, The Globe and Mail (Top 100 Books of…
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran DesaiWinner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued…
Innocents
by Cathy Coote“[A] titillating odyssey of arrant manipulation.” –Daphne Uviller, Time Out New York
