Tag Archives: Literary
The Core of the Sun
by Johanna SinisaloFrom the queen of “Finnish weird,” a captivating and witty speculative satire of a Handmaid’s Tale-esque welfare state where women are either breeders or…
Cosmos
by Witold Gombrowicz“Cosmos is a vicious and uncompromised little gem of the obscene.” —Adam Novy, The Believer
Cosmos and Pornografia
by Witold Gombrowicz“In him, for the first time, Polish literature produced a writer to whom the agonies of being Polish were less important than the tragicomedy…
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.” –The…
The Convalescent
by Jessica Anthony“Jessica Anthony has given a voice—wry, sad, and arresting—to the wounded little homunculus that lives, largely ignored, in all of us, a creature that…
Coming of Age at the End of Days
by Alice LaPlanteFrom New York Times bestselling author Alice LaPlante, a mesmerizing novel about faith, grief, and obsession as a complicated, passionate young woman falls in…
The Coming of the Night
by John Rechy“The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy’s sizzling literary response . . . is as exciting as it…
Cock and Bull
by Will SelfWill Self has been praised by The New York Times Book Review as “a high-powered satirical weapon” and Cock & Bull is one of…
Cockpit
by Jerzy Kosinski“A dazzling succession of . . . erotic episodes . . . Cockpit defines itself (as Kosinski does his hero) by the suicidal chances it takes . . . brilliantly defying the limitations of its form.” –The New York Times Book Review…
