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By Makarska

You can never tell how others might react to your art. This is the takeaway from Jim Bartley’s new novel, Makarska, about one family’s lingering scars from the Bosnian War of the mid-1990s. The artist ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Joan Clark

Joan Clark is the author of numerous books for adults and young adults, including An Audience of Chairs, which was shortlisted for the Winterset Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel ... Read More »

July 6, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Patrick Roscoe

The prose is plenty purple in Patrick Roscoe’s The Indivisible Heart, which is just how the author and his diegetic mouthpiece want it. But it would be a mistake to suggest that the protagonist of ... Read More »

June 29, 2015