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'Graphic Novels: A Personal Introduction' by Charlotte Simpson
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Now translated and published after her more recent Touch, is Adania Shibli's first novel. Read an excerpt of it here!
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"I like change, you go first!" Awards and Gender: Where Do We Stand Now
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Reviews
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NINE OF RUSSIA'S FOREMOST WOMAN WRITERS
Edited by GLAS
Translated from the Russian
If this anthology of recent writing by these nine Russian authors has a theme, it's the variety of approaches a modern writer can take. No use wishing for a different title than the simple one chosen by the editors; the stories are as various as Russia.
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Reviewed by Michael Matthew
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THE SNOW CHILD
Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey's debut novel is stunning. She has created a small world within the wilds of her native Alaska and peopled it with characters that feel as real as the neighbors next door. Full of the everyday drama of the human experience, the story of …
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Reviewed by Lisa Sanders
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SEND ME WORK: STORIES
Katherine Karlin
You know you're not sexist. Far from it. But when you hear that Katherine Karlin's short story collection Send Me Work is about women at work, you imagine secretaries dealing with male bosses, encountering romance with coworkers, perhaps a woman lawyer or doctor, but for sure all of them wearing heels. Why don't you think of women working in coveralls and boots…
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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IN RED
Magdalena Tulli
Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
Magdalena Tulli's In Red (W czerwieni 1998) uncovers the pattern of life in the Polish town of Stitchings: it is a pattern that recurs three times within the first half of the twentieth century.
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Reviewed by Jane A. Jones
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