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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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WE ARE ALL EQUALLY FAR FROM LOVE
Adiania Shibli
Translated from the Arabic by paul Starkey
If we are to believe the narratives and the characters in this set of interlinked short stories, then we all yearn equally for love and, moreover, we are all equally far from love.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie Dawood
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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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NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US
Ramona Ausubel
No One is Here Except All of Us is an imaginative novel where villagers try to escape the horrors of World War II by literally creating their world anew. With the power of collective belief, they rewrite their life stories and try to make them reality.
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Reviewed by Lisa Sanders
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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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