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Finnish author Riikka Pulkkinen makes her English debut with her second novel, True. Read the first chapter here!
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...A "subtly sophisticated gem of a novel" is how Joyce Nickel describes Mary Horlock's The Book of Lies. Read more...
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The recent Bellweather Prize winning novel, Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron, is reviewed by Judy Lim
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Reviews
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AVAILABLE DARK
Elizabeth Hand
Long ago, Cassandra Neary roamed the streets and rock clubs of the Lower East Side, photographing punk-scene habitués as damaged as herself. After making a small name for herself with a single book of photographs…
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Reviewed by Michael Matthew
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JUDITH'S SISTER
Lisa Tremblay
The nameless narrator (let's call her Miss X) of this engaging rite-of-passage novel is a twelve-year-old Catholic girl growing up in a small rural town in Quebec. Her stoic father works in the timber industry and …
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Reviewed by Dorothy Dudek Vinicombe
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SALVAGE THE BONES
Jesmyn Ward
I reviewed Jesmyn Ward's debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds for Belletrista's issue 2, and ever since then I've been looking forward to reading her second. Salvage the Bones was worth the wait. The good news doesn't stop there …
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Reviewed by Rachel Hayes
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IRAMIFICATIONS
by Maria Galina
Translated from the Russian by Amanda Love Darragh
As I began to read Maria Galina's Iramifications, I couldn't help but think of the old Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road" movies in which two rather hapless adventurers find themselves…
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Reviewed by Jane Anderson Jones
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Sudha Balagopal invites readers into the world of South Indian Carnatic music in the seven short stories of her
debut collection. Amanda Meale reviews it for us.
Included with this review is a performance by veena virtuoso Nirmala Rajasekar
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