Tag Archives: Literary

Jam on the Vine

by LaShonda Barnett

An 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 Desai

Winner 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

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…