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Baggage

By Jill Sooley

No matter how loving its members may be, it’s the rare stepfamily that doesn’t have at least some messiness attached to it. In her second novel, Newfoundland’s Jill Sooley examines the delicate dynamics of one ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Song of Kosovo

By Chris Gudgeon

Song of Kosovo is half galloping Bildungsroman, half treatise on the fraught interplay of truth, lies, and myth in what we end up calling history. Zavida Zankovic, a Serb press-ganged into paramilitary service, finds himself ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Exit Papers from Paradise

By Liam Card

Isaac Sullivan has been bitter ever since his alcoholic father’s on-the-job mishap forced Isaac to quit high school and join the family plumbing business. At 36, the overly intelligent, underemployed plumber and aspiring doctor is ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Dear Life

By Alice Munro

Critics have been saying for so long that a typical Alice Munro story is as rich and textured as any novel that they seem not to have noticed that her recent stories don’t resemble novels ... Read More »

October 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Siege 13

By Tamas Dobozy

When Soviet forces laid siege to the Nazi-controlled city of Budapest in late December 1944, it marked the beginning of one of the most brutal stretches of the Second World War. By the time the ... Read More »

October 9, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short