Tag Archives: Literary

Amrita

by Banana Yoshimoto

“Yoshimoto shouldn’t be shy about basking in her celebrity. Her achievements are already legend.” —Boston Globe

Allan Stein

by Matthew Stadler

“Allan Stein has the qualities of the sublime. Not in the diluted modern sense of the word, but in its older combination of beauty…

The Almond

by Nedjma

“Nedjma . . . has a gift for turning a beautiful phrase obscene and vice versa. . . . The novel is so genuinely…

Ambient

by Jack Womack

“Fascinating and well written . . . wonderfully inventive.” –The New York Times Book Review

Alif the Unseen

by G. Willow Wilson

From the author of award-winning graphic novels comes a stunning and propulsive debut novel, blending cyberpunk adventure with the enchantment of Middle Eastern mythology.

All Joe Knight

by Kevin Morris

An audacious debut novel set in hardscrabble Philadelphia about an orphan named Joe and the basketball team that raised him—a team that also has…

Act of the Damned

by António Lobo Antunes

“An exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices . . . The fury of its rhetoric takes on all but irresistible momentum.” –Kirkus Reviews

Adam Resurrected

by Yoram Kaniuk

“Yoram Kaniuk is one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World.” –The New York Times

Adios Hemingway

by Leonardo Padura Fuentes

“An elegantly turned meditation on the cold realities of age, the waning of strength and beauty and the production of literary myth. . ….

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

by Robert Coover

“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing…