The Los Angeles Times on Shalom Auslander's "scabrously funny" Hope: A Tragedy

"Willfully outrageous, a black humorist with an Old Testament moralist's heart." Read more...

More terrific reviews for Gin Phillips

“With a sure hand . . . Phillips, weaves this strand of the supernatural through a compelling modern story of love and loss.”—San Francisco Chronicle

 

O, the Oprah Magazine on Ramona Ausubel's No One Is Here Except All Of Us

“Romanian Jews in 1939 reinvent their own reality in this inspiring novel about the power of community and imagination.”—O, the Oprah Magazine

 

David Owen's The Conundrum

Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon is shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize

Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Asian Literary Prize 2011. The winner will be announced in March. Congrats to Jamil Ahmad! To read more about the prize...

Elle loves Gin Phillips's new novel

“As graceful and emotionally true as Phillips’ debut—and, in its thoroughly researched reimagining of the American Southwest’s prehistoric Mimbres culture and its leap into supernatural territory without once losing its credibility or riveting story line, surpasses it. . . . Amid a sensually sketched setting of rock formations, mesquite and juniper, narrow canyons, and night skies, Ren and Silas work side by side and try to bridge the growing distance between them. As the natural and supernatural worlds coalesce, both recent and ancient history become more insistently present, yielding an original and strikingly beautiful ending.”—Kate Christensen, Elle 

 

Shalom Auslander chooses a title for his new novel in The Paris Review

Hope: A Tragedy is Shalom Auslander's new novel, but the journey to that title was a long one as Shalom writes in The Paris Review. Read the entire essay...

Entertainment Weekly on Elliot Perlman's "epic, astonishing" The Street Sweeper

"In the best kind of books, there is always that moment when the words on the page swallow the world outside — subway stations fly by, errands go un-run, rational bedtimes are abandoned — and the only goal is to gobble up the next paragraph, and the next, and the next… A towering achievement: a strikingly modern literary novel that brings the ugliest moments of 20th-century history to life, and finds real beauty there." Read more...

The San Francisco Chronicle gives Ellis Avery’s The Last Nude a glowing review

“The plot heats and heats until it boils over with dramatic intrigue, finely woven twists and the kind of revelations that keep a reader up too late at night, greedily turning pages…reminiscent of Sarah Waters' historical novels… The Last Nude breaks important ground for literature, and does so with exuberance, skill and grace.” To read the full review, click here.

Wenguang Huang, author of the forthcoming memoir The Little Red Guard, writes about the death of Kim Jong-il in the New York Times

Wenguang Huang was in middle school in central China when Mao Zedong died. Writing about his experience of Mao’s death, Wenguang discusses the parallels between North Korea and Mao’s China and the meaning of Kim Jong-il’s death. To read the essay, click here.