Here They Come

“Murphy flawlessly captures a child’s-eye view of a battered society and a battered family . . . Most impressive of all is [her] remarkable use of language, the expressive way…

Brass

“In Brass, Walsh has created some of literature’s sexiest sex scenes, most out-of-it drug-taking . . . and imagery you won’t easily scrub off the back of your mind. It…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Bear Me Safely Over

“A gutsy, realistic and lyrical portrait of country people struggling to find meaning in their constricted lives. . . . An affecting narrative that explores the way people accept or…

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

“A literary event . . . A new voice of the South whose characters roamed as far as Asia and who were citizens of modern anxiety. . . . A…

Woodcuts of Women

…“the burning skin of green chile,” of sharp sexual attractions and the hundred intimacies and antagonisms between men and women, are like no others. We need these stories.” –Annie Proulx…

Wish You Were Here

“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos, the children’s bedtime. . . ….

The Waters of Eternal Youth

In the twenty-fifth novel in Donna Leon’s celebrated and bestselling series, Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a tragedy that befell a girl fifteen years earlier….

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

A powerful, important novel about the struggle between the ideal and the temptations of freedom.

The Voices

“A reader can feel [Elderkin’s] human characters being ripped from the earth, a reader can feel the children being ripped form their parent, and a reader with a good ear…