Shark by Will Self
Just a song a twilight, when the lights are low, And the flick’ring shadows softly come and...
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Perfidia by James Ellroy
Between 1987 and 1992 the Los Angeles-born writer James Ellroy published the LA Quartet, a...
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The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Nobody knows much of anything about Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa these days, and it is a real...
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
The themes of truth, meaning and self-knowledge all stem, in Joshua Ferris’s latest novel, from...
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The Fata Morgana Books by Jonathan Littell
It is once again a tremendous pleasure to be in the presence of Charlotte Mandell: her earlier...
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The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
Through the dust motes dancing on the sunbeams George spies the dream his life once was and he...
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt’s first novel in ten years begins with thirteen year old Theo Decker and his mother...
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Happyland by J. Robert Lennon
The idea of a fantastically wealthy doll mogul making a snap decision to transform a small,...
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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
With the recent passing of Elmore Leonard, it is apt that Pynchon has chosen a quote from...
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Nostalgia by Dennis McFarland
This Civil War-era novel explores the consequences of a decision to enlist in the Union army for a...
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What Changes Everything by Masha Hamilton
At the heart of this novel lies an effort to describe a involuntary tilt or shift in the American...
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl
The idea propelling Night Film forward for six hundred odd pages seems to be something to do with...
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The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
There are basically two ways that novels hang together: you either get terrific plotting that...
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