Tag Archives: Literary

The Good Remains

by Nani Power

“Power is adept at creating a cast of voices. . . . Every one of Power’s dozen or so characters brims with life and…

God Says No

by James Hannaham

“A tender, funny tour of a mind struggling to do the right thing. A revelatory and sympathetic guide to a misunderstood world.” —Steve Martin,…

A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening

by Mário de Carvalho

“An absorbing study of a single man’s moral code, as well as a provocative meditation on the difficulty of leading a virtuous life in…

The Goddess Chronicle

by Natsuo Kirino

“Kirino wows with her latest novel. . . . Readers will devour this tragic story and be left transformed.” —Publishers Weekly

Going, Going, Gone

by Jack Womack

“Going, Going, Gone is the sixth and final novel in Womack’s futuristic Ambient series, a stinging critique of corporate capitalism that is dark, funny…

Gojiro

by Mark Jacobson

“A comic masterpiece of tragic proportions . . . a visionary novel. Only one other writer has Mark Jacobson’s ability to spin a yarn…

Gold

by Dan Rhodes

“A . . . laconic, likable short novel . . . Against the currents of this slight tale, Rhodes creates an atmosphere so banal…

Gold by the Inch

by Lawrence Chua

“A sparse, fragmented style which sometimes resembles the gliding, poetic prose of Marguerite Duras . . . The author’s real talent is to lay…

Gilgamesh

by Joan London

“At once a very Australian dream and a universal one, the dream of exotic, talismanic places beyond the horizon. . . . [Gilgamesh is]…

The Ginger Man

by J.P. Donleavy

“A triumph of comic writing . . . no contemporary writer is better than Donleavy at his best.” —The New Yorker