Tag Archives: Literary

The Cutting Room

by Louise Welsh

“The Cutting Room fixes itself among a formidable modern pantheon that includes the novels of Ian McEwan and A. L. Kennedy. . . ….

Crawling at Night

by Nani Power

“[Power’s] starkly realistic characters and terse, lyrical prose herald her as an exciting new voice. . . . Ito is a Japanese sushi chef,…

Crazy Cock

by Henry Miller

“To write, Miller always required an air of the literary, and Crazy Cock supplies the blueprint.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Cry of the Dove

by Fadia Faqir

“Exquisitely woven.” —Leila Aboulela

The Core of the Sun

by Johanna Sinisalo

From 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…

Come In with the Dutchman

by William S. Burroughs

“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”—Joan Didion The layered, idiosyncratic screenplay about one of America’s most notorious gangsters…