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Small Saul

By Ashley Spires

From the creator of Binky the Spacecat comes Small Saul, another story about a charming lightweight who craves adventure. Saul longs for a life at sea, but Pirate College turns out to be anything but ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Free World

By David Bezmozgis

After Henry Roth, after Isaac Bashevis Singer, after Saul Bellow, after Philip Roth, after Grace Paley, after Mordecai Richler, after Cynthia Ozick, after countless other writers secular and religious, socialist and conservative, Zionist and assimilationist, ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kootenay Silver

By Ann Chandler

Twelve-year-old Addy McLeod’s abusive stepfather has died and her little brother has disappeared, so she leaves home in a panic, camping out in the B.C. woods and eventually landing a job at a hotel in ... Read More »

March 25, 2011

Civil and Civic

By Jonathan Bennett

There’s nothing terribly civil about the title poem in Jonathan Bennett’s second collection, which describes a political protest that tumbles headlong into anarchic violence when the “blunt harm of a brick” is thrown at riot ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry