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'Graphic Novels: A Personal Introduction' by Charlotte Simpson

Now translated and published after her more recent Touch, is Adania Shibli's first novel. Read an excerpt of it here!

"I like change, you go first!" Awards and Gender: Where Do We Stand Now

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FANTASTIC WOMEN: 18 TALES OF THE SURREAL AND THE SUBLIME FROM TIN HOUSE
Edited by Rob Spillman

This ambitious anthology from the publishers of Tin House magazine brings together a collection of unusual stories from some of the most imaginative women writing in the United States today.
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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UNDERGROUND TIME
Delphine de Vigan
Translated from the French by George Miller

Amidst a buzzing Paris, we find two individuals at odds with their surrounds. In spite of the steady hubbub around them, each is enveloped in a web of loneliness and sorrow that threatens to annihilate them. The woman and man routinely echo one another's inner worlds. Yet they have never met.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie Dawood
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SARAH THORNHILL
Kate Grenville

Sarah Thornhill is the sequel to Grenville's widely-acclaimed novel The Secret River, which told the story of freed convict William Thornhill making a home on the Hawkesbury River in the newly- settled colony of Australia….
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Reviewed by Amanda Meale
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NEXT STOP: SEJER ISLAND
Andrea Heiberg

In Next Stop: Sejer Island, Andrea Heiberg has assembled an endearing cast of characters engaged in the everyday life of their small Danish island. There are eight short stories in this slim volume…
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Reviewed by Maggie Oldendorf


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Read an excerpt from this Lebanese author's new novel.
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