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Mortal by Ivy Alvarez

Mortal by Ivy Alvarez Reviewed by Stephen Page Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture and fecundity. She is often depicted in artwork as carrying corn, shafts of wheat, or the horn of...

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Women Up On Blocks by Mary Akers

Women Up On Blocks by Mary Akers Reviewed by Stephen Page The female protagonists in Mary Akers’s collection of short stories, Women Up On Blocks, live male dominated lives. They feel trapped, yet are...

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How to Water God’s Garden

How to Water God’s Garden The Year of the Flood and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Review by Alexios Moore In her latest two novels, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, Atwood returns to...

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The Pregnant Widow By Martin Amis

The Pregnant Widow By Martin Amis Knopf / Jonathan Cape,470pp Reviewed by Robin Mookerjee When Mr. Amis releases a new novel his many readers want to know if it is fun – as fun as works likeLondon...

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An Age of Terror and Forgetting

An Age of Terror and Forgetting by Ranbir Sidhu A review of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar Duke University Press. 2010. 217 pages. Among the many symptoms of...

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The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie

The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie A review by Joseph Salvatore Scribner. 514 pages. $30 My college writing teacher was a friend and a great fan of Ann Beattie. This was during the late 80s. In his...

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Black-Eyed Heifer by Shelly Taylor

Black-Eyed Heifer by Shelly Taylor A review by John Findura Tarpaulin Sky Press. 88 pages. $12 I was on a train somewhere between Trenton and Baltimore when I reached this section of Shelly Taylor’s...

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The Book of Freaks by Jamie Iredell

The Book of Freaks by Jamie Iredell A review by Chris Bundy Future Tense Books 136 pages. $11   B for Book Review —a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and...

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The Curfew by Jesse Ball

The Curfew by Jesse Ball A review by Shelby Wardlaw Vintage. 208 pages. $15 Behind the dystopian plot of Jesse Ball’s new book The Curfew lies an in-depth meditation on the purpose and state of the...

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