Tag Archives: Literary

February

by Lisa Moore

“Luminous . . . Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is, I think, the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.”…

The Fall of the Stone City

by Ismail Kadare

A rich short novel in Kadare’s unique style, The Fall of the Stone City is a tale of dictatorship, resistance, and magic, set in the most tumultuous period of Albania’s recent history….

The Explosion Chronicles

by Yan Lianke

With his distinctive style that blends mythology and realism, satire and fantasy, Yan Lianke—one of the most acclaimed Chinese writers of his generation—returns with…

Exposure

by Helen Dunmore

“Much like a slick, shape-shifting spook, Exposure is many things at once–an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant’s tale—and it assumes these varied…

Fair Warning

by Robert Olen Butler

“[Fair Warning is] often brilliant, [a] meditation on love and possession . . . Butler wins us over in the opening pages with this…

A Fairy Tale of New York

by J.P. Donleavy

“J.P. Donleavy is a writer of explosive, winning imagination.” —The New York Times Book Review

Euphoria

by Lily King

“A taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace—a love triangle in extremis . . ….

Eveningland

by Michael Knight

In his powerful new short story cycle, Alabama-born Michael Knight illuminates the everyday beauty and heartache of life along the shores of serene, history-haunted…