Tag Archives: Literary

The Inquisitors’ Manual

by António Lobo Antunes

“Antunes creates voices with a scrupulous, authorial neutrality. . . . He also has created a character in Senhor Francisco . . . as…

In the Shape of a Boar

by Lawrence Norfolk

“One of the year’s most imaginative and challenging novels.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

In the Walled City

by Stewart O'Nan

“O’Nan has the rare gift of shifting perspective, often in the same story, without any sacrifice of intensity or authenticity. In this book we…

In the City of Shy Hunters

by Tom Spanbauer

Spanbauer has inserted his character, the Shy Hunter, into the mythology of the real Lower East Side of Manhattan. Surely many will want to follow his steps after reading In the City of Shy Hunters.” –Thomas McGonigle, The Washington Post…

In the Fall

by Jeffrey Lent

“Majestic . . . epic . . . vital . . . a necessary piece in a uniquely American mosaic.” —The New York Times Book Review…

The Impostor

by Damon Galgut

“Fast-paced and breathless . . . Canning is a memorable creation, a sort of African Gatsby, but without the glamour.” —William Skidelsky, The Observer

In Another Place, Not Here

by Dionne Brand

“The remarkable poet Dionne Brand now gives us a fierce, sensuous novel of women in migration–political and emotional. Concrete and visionary as a dream,…

I, Lucifer

by Glen Duncan

“Duncan’s witty and perverse, yet somehow life-affirming. Readers . . . won’t want to put [I, Lucifer] down.” –Brendan Driscoll, Booklist