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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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ALL YOURS
Claudia Piñeiro
Translated from the Spanish by Miranda France
On the surface, Claudia Piñeiro's All Yours seems like a familiar story—a loving wife, Inés, discovers her husband is cheating on her, and vows revenge. Despite a plot that could have been pulled from any number of novels, Piñeiro's book is anything but ordinary.
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Reviewed by Caitlin Fehir
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BYE BYE BABYLON: BEIRUT 1975-1979
Lamia Ziadé
Lamia Ziadé's Bye Bye Babylon, an illustrated memoir, takes us back to the spring of 1975, on a day when her family returned from a lunch in the country to find that in the space of a few hours a civil war had begun.
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Reviewed by Charlotte Simpson
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LONELY WOMAN
Takako Takahashi
Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori
Lonely Woman is a beautiful but bleak collection of five interwoven stories, each focusing on a different woman living in urban Tokyo. It is a breathtaking look at loneliness and isolation, and the fate of women in a society that chooses to ignore their individuality.
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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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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