Tag Archives: Literary

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

by William S. Burroughs

The legendary unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the…

And the War Is Over

by Ismail Marahimin

“[And the War Is Over] has the dramatic intensity of a kick in the guts. . . . [Marahimin’s] mastery of the universe he’s…

The Angel of History

by Rabih Alameddine

The incendiary new novel by National Book Award finalist Rabih Alameddine, about an Arab American poet, whose adult life in San Francisco spans the AIDS decades, and his hilarious and…

Annabel

by Kathleen Winter

Award-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a rural hunting community…

Among the Dead

by Michael Tolkin

“Forceful . . . moves forward relentlessly like a very commercial film or a very hungry shark.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times…

The Amphora Project

by William Kotzwinkle

“Science fiction with a humorous bent . . . Frothy, sassy entertainment.” –Kirkus Reviews…

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