Search Results for: pathetic literature
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
by Dubravka Ugresic“[A] strange and wonderful book . . . I couldn’t stop reading. . . . Ugresic is affecting and eloquent . . . [and writes] with earthy grace.” —Mary Gaitskill,…
Miracle of the Rose
by Jean Genet“Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.” –The New York…
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it is ultimately, as Camus’s novel The…
Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition
by Samuel Beckett“[Godot is] among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. The non-story of two tramps at…
The Miracle Detective
by Randall Sullivan“An intrepid Portland journalist crafts a fascinating exploration of how the Catholic Church investigates purported sightings of the Virgin Mary; a globe-trotting, first-person spiritual odyssey that took him to northeastern…
Lovers for a Day
by Ivan Klíma“Klíma is simply not read widely enough in the U.S. . . . A master of the significant detail–telling only that which is essential.” –Brad Hooper, Booklist…
Eat the Rich
by P. J. O'Rourke“O’Rourke has done the unthinkable: He’s made money funny.” –Forbes FYI…
Cosmos
by Witold Gombrowicz“Cosmos is a vicious and uncompromised little gem of the obscene.” —Adam Novy, The Believer…
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 a character deal with the inexplicabilities…
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…
