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by Jonathan Lethem
Published Aug 2019
Read ReviewsJonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn.
by Jonathan Evison
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsLawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.
by Bradley Somer
Published Nov 2016
Read ReviewsAt turns funny and heartbreaking, a goldfish names Ian escapes from his bowl and, plummeting toward the street below, witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents.
by Robert Boswell
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsIn Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.
by Thomas Pletzinger
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsRich with anthropological and literary allusion, this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future.
by David J. Halperin
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA sparkling debut novel set in the sixties about a boy's emotional and fantastical journey through alien worlds and family pain.
by Adam Haslett
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsThe eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.
by Don DeLillo
Published Dec 2010
Read ReviewsDon DeLillo looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine.
by Gary Shteyngart
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsA hilarious and heartfelt new novel, a deliciously dark tale of Americas dysfunctional coming yearsand the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
by Victor LaValle
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.
by John Wray
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsBy turns suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boy's haunting and extraordinary vision.
by Joseph O'Neill
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsIn a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.
by Tyler Knox
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsIt is the mid-1950s; in a fleabag hotel off Times Square Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he's become, of all things, a human. As Kockroach, led by his primitive desires and insectile amorality, navigates through the bizarre human realms of crime, business, politics, and sex, he meets with both ...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsUnafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.
by Haruki Murakami
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA tour de force of metaphysical reality, powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy who runs away from home to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy, and an aging simpleton.
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