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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

Carnival

By Rawi Hage

At about the halfway point in Rawi Hage’s new novel, a taxi driver named Fly offers a ride to a stripper named Sally. After getting into the cab, Sally spots a copy of Jean Genet’s ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Purchase

By Linda Spalding

The past sometimes seems like a beautiful place, but it is a damn good thing we don’t live there anymore. Linda Spalding’s new novel begins in Pennsylvania in 1798, when Daniel Dickinson and his young ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels