Genuinely funny, and wonderfully irreverent, it will appeal to any reader, whether or not they are familiar with Shakespeare's Lear.
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Books Review: Carthage by Ross Leckie and The Siege by Ismail Kadare
Two gripping, "literary" treatments of war come to the same conclusion about its place in the human condition.
Read More »Book Review: Yalo by Elias Khoury
Under torture, a young Lebanese man forced to write his life story has kaleidoscopic memories of a life affected by civil war.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Conversations on Russian Literature Plus Three More Plays by David Johnston
"Conversations on Russian Literature" has all the elements of the great suspense stories of our age: two characters sitting in a park talking.
Read More »Book Review: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Offers readers the chance to try and understand what would drive a person seek a place to start their life over again.
Read More »Book Review: The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters Volume Two By Gordon Dahlquist
It's not often that a book can be escapist fun and thought-provoking at the same time.
Read More »Interview with Jo Ann Hernandez, author of The Throwaway Piece
"I write a lot about racism and incest. I have this false hope that my books can eradicate these two issues."
Read More »Book Review: The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters Vol. 1 by Gordon Dahlquist
The characters are intriguing, the action exciting, and the plot is full of unexpected twists and turns.
Read More »Interview: R. Scott Bakker, Author Of The Aspect Emperor
"Literature–real literature–reaches out rather than in and I can think of no better way of reaching out than with genre and spectacle."
Read More »Interview: Reginald Hill, creator of Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe
"I hate creating characters simply in terms of their function, I like to know them as people."
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