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There is contemporary fiction about addiction, and then there is Paradise, the fifth novel from A. L. Kennedy, which stands out for its bitter wit, its painful truth-telling, and the narcotic quality of its author’s limber, serpentine prose
by Marrit Ingman
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Aparain has unsurprisingly already been compared to Marquez. But this rich parable shares as much with Steinbeck’s The Pearl as it does with Marquez’s work. Both read like a folk legend, both portray music as the yearning soul’s most intimate expression, and both describe the struggle of an unsophisticated peasant- type against powerful societal forces
by Jeff Tonn
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Unless you’re a Hornby completist driven to paroxysms over the man’s every quotidian observance, get ready to throw the book at the wall more than once: at the twee (titular) references to the Believer’ brass, at a gratuitous excerpt from Great Expectations,’ and at Hornby’s grousing about having too few chances to read
by Marrit Ingman
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In addition to bolstering tourism, Gregory David Robert’s Shantaram’ will do for India what Alex Garland’s The Beach’ did for Thailand: realistically color a foreign world as an accessible frontier for adventure, intrigue, and, most importantly, new beginnings
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For the serious Sherlockian, there is Leslie S. Klinger’s Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, an exhaustive nine-volume survey of scholarship from Gasogene Press. For the rest of us – serious Sherlockians in the making – there is this mammoth two-volume set.
by Marrit Ingman

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