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The Strike

By Anand Mahadevan

The Strike casts the reader into 1980s India, where 12-year-old Hari must make sense of a world in which borders between languages, classes, and religions are still part of everyday reality. The narrative opens with ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prisoner of Tehran

By Marina Nemat

In one of those odd, inexplicable coincidences so common in publishing, two new non-fiction books confront an unimaginable horror: young women abducted (or “arrested”) and held captive for months, if not years, with little hope ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Kidnapped: A Diary

By Leszli Kalli

In one of those odd, inexplicable coincidences so common in publishing, two new non-fiction books confront an unimaginable horror: young women abducted (or “arrested”) and held captive for months, if not years, with little hope ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Afloat

By Jennifer McCartney

Before I get started, a quick point addressed to Jennifer McCartney: Dear Jennifer, The title of Franz Ferdinand’s latest album, You Could Have It So Much Better, sprang to mind when I first looked at ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bindery

By Shane Rhodes

Ottawa-based poet Shane Rhodes’ third collection is a difficult book to criticize in terms of its particulars. The writing is very polished and there are few glaring false steps. But a maxim from Longinus comes ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry