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Review: The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin

By Gwendolyn Dawson Written in the style of an intimate memoir, The Confessions of Edward Day delves into the daily lives of a group of struggling  … 

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Review: The Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov

Reviewed by Gwendolyn Dawson The Golden Calf, a classic Russian novel now available in a new English translation by Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson, published  … 

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Review: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

By Gwendolyn Dawson In Colm Toibin’s latest novel, Brooklyn, young Eilis Lacey leaves the struggling economy of her small hometown in southeast Ireland to forge  … 

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Review: The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi

The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi (translated by Polly McLean) Reviewed by Gwendolyn Dawson In this slim novel, an unnamed woman ministers to her comatose  … 

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Review: Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

By Gwendolyn Dawson This bleak novel tracks the slow destruction of a marriage and, ultimately, a family. Irene, a failed historian, and her husband Gil,  … 

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Review: Don DeLillo’s Point Omega

By Edward Nawotka Starting with 2002′s Cosmopolis about the 2000 Internet-stock-bubble burst, Don DeLillo has used his considerable skills as a fiction writer to dwell  … 

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Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull Reviewed by Gwendolyn Dawson This collection of seven loosely interconnected short  … 

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