Literary
Frances and Bernard
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Frances, a writer much like Flannery O’Connor, and Bernard, a poet much like Robert Lowell, meet in the late 1950s…
The Accursed
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Princeton, 1905. President (of the university, not yet the US) Woodrow Wilson works up to apoplexy in his Herculean struggle…
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
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Tristan Hart is a product of his time (the mid-18th century): conversant in Enlightenment philosophy but puzzled by the mechanics…
The End of the Point
If the author’s intent was to write a literary novel with its skim-the-surface type of nuances, she succeeded. She presents…
The Manzoni Family
Alessandro Manzoni, the eminent author of I Promisse Sposi (The Betrothed) was a famous poet and novelist whose family is…
Snow Germans
Am I Russian or German? This is the question all of the three protagonists in this novel overtly and unconsciously…
Timote
David William Foster translated, re-edited and condensed Feinmann’s 2009 novel. In 1970, Peronist rebels kidnap former Argentine president Pedro Eugenio…
Black Venus
This novel explores the life of one of France’s most innovative poets, whose contribution to French literature was underappreciated during…
The Tree of Forgetfulness
Readers may avoid certain genres, eras, or styles; there are so many novels written, and we over-discriminate. But don’t let…
In Times of Fading Light
Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on…
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