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On Being An Artist: Don Lee’s ‘The Collective’

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 / 5 December 2012
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‘In Between Days’ Is a Truly Dysfunctional Novel

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 / 27 November 2012
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Steven Millhauser the Illusionist: ‘We Others’

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 / 25 October 2012
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A Nice Debut: Vincent Lam’s ‘The Headmaster’s Wager’

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 / 24 July 2012
The Impossibility of Orthodoxy in ‘I Am Forbidden’
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The Impossibility of Orthodoxy in ‘I Am Forbidden’

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 / 17 July 2012

While Anouk Markovits offers clear explanations of Orthodox practices in her novel, I Am Forbidden, her characters aren’t exactly sympathetic.

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Watch the Skies: Hari Kunzru’s ‘Gods Without Men’

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 / 30 May 2012
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Carol Anshaw’s ‘Carry the One’ Is a Work of Great Populist Literature

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 / 23 April 2012
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Misplaced Redemption and Bittersweetness in Esi Edugyan’s ‘Half-Blood Blues’

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 / 15 April 2012
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Patrick deWitt’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’ Is a Rip-Roaring, Engrossing Read

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 / 22 March 2012
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‘The Flame Alphabet’ Brings to Mind David Cronenberg’s Early Films

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 / 4 March 2012
Haruki Murakami’s ‘1Q84’ Creates a World that Bears a Question
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Haruki Murakami’s ‘1Q84’ Creates a World that Bears a Question

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 / 27 October 2011

Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 is an excursion into the underbelly of the strange. There is great satisfaction in getting lost in this long novel’s push and pull.

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In Teju Cole’s ‘Open City’, The Past Is Mostly Empty Space

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 / 20 June 2011