Tag Archives: Literary

The Changeling

by Kenzaburo Oe

“It is a richly imagined, complex story full of the oddity, irony, and existential angst that have long been at the heart of Oe’s…

Charles Bukowski

by Howard Sounes

“Engaging . . . adroit . . . revealing.” —The New York Times Book Review

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

by Michael Ignatieff

“A gripping thriller. It is easy to be swept along by the fast action, and to be sucked into Charlie’s roguish world of sleazy…

Carnival

by Robert Antoni

From a Commonwealth Writers Prize–winner for Best First Book comes a stunning new novel that lays bare themes of race and sexuality in a…

A Carnivore’s Inquiry

by Sabina Murray

The spellbinding new book by the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award is a gripping, literary psychological thriller about a young woman and a…

Carry Me Down

by M.J. Hyland

“John Egan is a brave, resourceful boy, intelligent and self-aware, yet skating on the edge of madness. The story of John’s thirteenth year is…

Caught

by Lisa Moore

“Quintessential Moore: precise, compressed, intimately rhythmic, mesmerizingly smart.” —Leah Hager Cohen, The Globe and Mail

Cain’s Book

by Alexander Trocchi

“Mr. Tocchi’s ideas (or, rather, his gropings toward the distant glow of ideas) are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp…

Camus, a Romance

by Elizabeth Hawes

“A rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir. . .[an] intriguing, multi-faceted portrait.” —The Washington Post

Candy

by Terry Southern

“Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.” —William Styron