Category: Fiction

• The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore: A tour de force of lyrical prose and the uncanny

  A. K. Blakemore, Books, Fiction, The Glutton by A. K. Blakemore, Women Writers

• Ágota Kristof’s The Notebook Trilogy of Novels: Remarkable on loss, identity and the trauma of war

  Agota Kristof, Authors, Books, Fiction, Literary Classics, The Notebook Trilogy by Ágota Kristof

• On Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God: Purple prose in hindrance of its master

  Authors, Books, Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, Fiction, Violence Against Women

• Curiouser and Curiouser: My Favorite Alices – Post by Christina Henry, bestselling novelist

  Authors, Fiction

• The Magic Wagon: A Bildungsroman Cult Classic by Joe R. Lansdale

  Authors, Books, Fiction, Joe R. Lansdale, Literary Classics

• A List of Top 100 Novels: stats and trivia

  Books, Fiction

• The battle of the sexes in fiction – Lawrence Naumoff’s Taller Women

  Authors, Books, Feminism, Fiction

• To sever your head from your heart: Dangerous liaisons in Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head

  A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch, Authors, Books, Fiction, Iris Murdoch, The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch, Women Writers

• A Visit from the Sh*it Squad: Jennifer Egan’s novel about watching toxic paint dry on cr*ap music

  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, Authors, Books, Fiction, Jennifer Egan, Literary Classics

• Who’s Your Daddy? An appreciation of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

  Authors, Books, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Fiction, Ivan Turgenev, Literary Classics

• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner: A moving meditation on love and personal choices

  Anita Brookner, Feminism, Fiction, Women Writers

• The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch: An Appreciation

  Abuse of Women, Authors, Fiction, Iris Murdoch, Literary Classics, Misogyny, The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch, Women Writers

• The true heir to the best of Kafka’s fiction: Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy

  Ferenc Karinthy, Fiction, Literary Classics, Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy

• Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson – A cult classic, and superb fiction

  Alternate History, Fiction, Literary Classics, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson

• Vengeance is mine. Want some? Hubert Selby’s Waiting Period

  Fiction, Hubert Selby, Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr., Literary Classics, Waiting Period by Hubert Selby, Jr.

• Ivy Compton-Burnett: Modernist, ironic, acid-sharp and clever as all hell

  Fiction, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Literary Classics

• Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi: A wonderful fable-like story of feminist power and retribution

  Abuse of Women, Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi, Fiction, Helen Zahavi, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence Against Women, Women Writers

• The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedeyat: A Persian/Iranian literary classic about madness, obsession, betrayal and murder.

  Fiction, Literary Classics, Misogyny, Sadeq Hedayat, The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat, Violence Against Women

• Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig: A classic 20th century novel

  Anthea Bell, Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig, Fiction, Literary Classics, Stefan Zweig

• Bathing in Divine Waters: On the Many Pleasures of Role Models by John Waters

  Fiction, Ivy Compton-Burnett, John Waters, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Role Models by John Waters

• Memoirs of a Geisha – What makes it such a great movie?

  Books, Classics, Fiction, Films, Memoirs of a Geisha

• The Breast by Philip Roth: His most outrageous, fun work, besides Portnoy’s Complaint

  Fiction, Literary Classics, Philip Roth, The Breast by Philip Roth

• Last Exit to Brooklyn – Still Selby’s best novel?

  Fiction, Hubert Selby, Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr., Literary Classics