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    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      The Family Chao — a Dostoevsky-style take on immigrant life in America

      Lan Samantha Chang’s smart and entertaining mystery of sibling rivalry, murder and missing dogs in small-town Wisconsin

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
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      The Book of Form & Emptiness — a story about storytelling

      Inanimate objects — including the book itself — become characters in Ruth Ozeki’s strikingly self-referential novel

    • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
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      The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen — rawness and rage

      The Vietnamese-American’s second novel explores the migrant experience in seedy 1980s Paris, where drug dealers mix philosophy with violence and greed

    • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
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      The Index of Self-Destructive Acts — the best-laid plans . . .

      Christopher Beha’s empathetic novel portrays New Yorkers struggling to make sense of life

    • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
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      Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld — what Hillary could have done

      An entertaining novel that reimagines the life of Hillary Rodham, without marriage to Bill Clinton

    • Friday, 21 September, 2018
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      Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie — view from the top

      Privilege and inequality intersect for an expat wife looking for purpose in Brazil

    • Friday, 30 March, 2018
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      Macbeth by Jo Nesbo — bloody and bold

      A Norwegian crime writer’s noirish retelling of ‘Macbeth’

    • Friday, 27 October, 2017
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      American War by Omar El Akkad — north-south divide

      A brutal civil war tears apart the United States in an assured dystopian debut novel

    • Friday, 13 January, 2017
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      The Nix by Nathan Hill — ghosts in the family

      Politics, protests and absent parents are the backdrop for an expansive novel that plays with history

    • Friday, 9 September, 2016
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      Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman review — return to Montana

      A novel about a couple’s quest to seek out the birth parents of their unusual adopted child

    • Friday, 24 June, 2016
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      ‘Imagine Me Gone’, by Adam Haslett

      Grief and mental illness are deftly explored in an affecting, yet funny, family tale

    • Friday, 22 April, 2016
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      ‘Tales of Persuasion’, by Philip Hensher

      Happiness proves elusive for the beleaguered characters who populate these fine short stories

    • Friday, 30 October, 2015
      The Diary
      Randy Boyagoda

      The author attends a literary-political conference, where the struggles of oppressed writers and their families were discussed

    • Friday, 25 September, 2015
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      ‘Blue Guitar’, by John Banville

      An Irish painter reflects on his past misdeeds in this moving, autumnal novel

    • Friday, 31 July, 2015
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      Existential truths at the summer movieplex

      ‘When have moviemakers ever been deferential to the intentions and efforts of literature?’

    • Friday, 24 April, 2015
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      ‘A God in Ruins’, by Kate Atkinson

      A veteran’s quiet heroism collides with his daughter’s strident ideals in the author’s follow-up to ‘Life After Life’

    • Friday, 27 February, 2015
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      ‘Satin Island’, by Tom McCarthy

      The author attempts to disrupt conventional understandings of what matters in a work of fiction

    • Friday, 20 February, 2015
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      The Diary: Randy Boyagoda

      The Canadian writer and critic on lecturing about Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ and religion’s place in public life

    • Friday, 2 January, 2015
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      ‘10:04’, by Ben Lerner

      An autobiographical novel about a successful writer’s love-hate relationship with the New York literary scene

    • Friday, 7 November, 2014
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      ‘Wolf in White Van’, by John Darnielle

      An impressive debut explores how a suburban misfit’s dark fantasies impact on reality

    • Friday, 3 October, 2014
      The Diary
      The Diary: Randy Boyagoda

      The author and his family watch salmon leaping in Toronto and visit their ancestral home in Sri Lanka

    • Friday, 5 September, 2014
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      ‘The Bone Clocks’, by David Mitchell

      David Mitchell’s crazy inventiveness dazzles

    • Friday, 4 July, 2014
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      ‘Noontide Toll’, by Romesh Gunesekera

      Interlinked stories offer a driver’s-eye view of Sri Lanka today

    • Friday, 16 May, 2014
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      ‘Family Life’, by Akhil Sharma
    • Friday, 18 April, 2014
      Life & Arts
      From Noah to Moses, why the renewed interest in Bible films?
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