April Witch book by Majgull Axelsson
Peter Ibbetson
The award-winning Swedish novel April Witch is the dark and powerful tale of Desirée, a severely disabled woman abandoned at birth by her mother to spend her entire life in…
Fiction
House of Women book by Lynn Freed
“My mother keeps every key to her house on a ring attached to her bag,” says seventeen-and-a-half-year-old Thea early in Lynn Freed’s beautifully told fifth novel, House of Women .…
Video book by Meera Nair
Meera Nair’s first book, Video , is a collection of ten short stories with a wide range of settings and protagonists. She moves from a small Indian village to Phoenix,…
The Black Veil book by Rick Moody
In the preface to The Black Veil, Moody writes that the “book and my life are written in fits, more like epilepsy than like a narrative,” clarifying his description of…
Written in Wood at Yale 200 book by Janet Stimson
Yale sociologist Janet Stimson’s new book, Written in Wood: Yale at 200, gives an insightful if sparse account of the university and New Haven at the turn of the 20th…
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories book by Alice Munro
By turns both lovely and frustrating, Alice Munro’s book of nine new stories, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, offers a realistic window into life’s misfortunes and truths, its delicate moments…
Half a Life book by V.S. Naipaul
Half a Life plunges the reader into the middle of a story and ends, half a life distant, at the beginning of another. V. S. Naipaul continues the boundary-exploring work…
Atonement book by Ian McEwan
People invent stories to defend or promote themselves, to entertain or challenge or plead with their audience, to offer some vision of the world as it should be, and to…
The John Fante Reader edited by Stephen Cooper
Sadly, it is one of the curses of their trade that great novelists often lead lives that resemble bad novels. Like a romance novel or a mystery, the literary pantheon…
O Rouse Up, Young Men of the New Age book by Kenzaburo Oe
Since the birth of his mentally handicapped son Hikari more than 30 years ago, Kenzaburo Oe has often drawn on the challenge of raising the boy for literary inspiration. Several…