Tag Archives: Literary

Brave Deeds

by David Abrams

A powerful second novel from the author of Fobbit, Brave Deeds is a portrait of the modern American military, following one squad of soldiers…

Bongwater

by Michael Hornburg

“Bongwater is one of the coolest books of the year. Hornburg explodes the whole grunge mythos by taking it out of the realm of…

Book of Clouds

by Chloe Aridjis

“The opening is a knockout. . . . Aridjis beautifully captures Tatiana’s conflicting sense of certainty and impossibility . . . in this novel…

Borderlands

by James Carlos Blake

“No fiction written by a Texan these days is as violent as James Carlos Blake’s. He likes it that way, and he’s not the…

Blue Movie

by Terry Southern

“Terry Southern writes a mean, coolly deliberate, and murderous prose.” —Norman Mailer…

Blueprints of the Afterlife

by Ryan Boudinot

An audacious, hilarious, and compelling novel of future shock, overconsumption, social control, and human nature by Ryan Boudinot, whom Dave Eggers has called “Some kind of new and dangerous cross between Vonnegut and Barthelme.”…

Bodies and Souls

by John Rechy

“Rechy is very good at evoking the seamier side of the streets, and he is masterful in funny, graphic sex scenes.” —Publishers Weekly…

Blind Date

by Jerzy Kosinski

“Kosinski’s vitality and inventiveness . . . are as irresistible as ever.” –Time

The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat

Available with a new introduction, The Blind Owl is a masterpiece of Persian literature—a tale of obsession and madness that chillingly re-creates the labyrinthine…

The Blindness of the Heart

by Julia Franck

“Winner of the German Book Prize . . . this is a great, big silence-breaker of a novel, a laser beam into the German…