“Based on a true story,” Shawn Granger’s Family Bones (King Tractor Press) recounts one teenage boy’s horrendous summer in the American heartland. Dumped with his grandparents by his bickering parents, young would-be punk Sean is quickly shunted off to an aunt and uncle’s farm after his grandfather gets hospitalized in a hunting accident. “Staying with [...]
27
May
Graphic Novel Review Family Bones Volume One By Shawn Granger Et Al
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25
Apr
For Phyllis Bricker, a rare tour yesterday through the Supermax prison - where her parents’ killer is housed on death row - was the latest step in a painful odyssey as she awaits an execution that has been on hold for years.
“My parents are gone, and he’s still here,” Bricker said while standing inside the [...]
25
Apr
For Phyllis Bricker, a rare tour Friday through the Supermax
prison — where her parents’ killer is housed on death row — was the latest step in a painful odyssey as she awaits an execution that has been on hold for years.
“My parents are gone
and he’s still here,” Bricker said while [...]
4
Apr
Jodi Picoult�s latest novel, Change of Heart, is sure to cause debate among its readers. In it, Picoult�s four narrators, who take turns telling the story, grapple with challenging questions that certainly provoke a great deal of thought. Narrator June Nealon asks perhaps the toughest questions: �Would you give up your vengeance against someone you [...]
6
Mar
Readers in the West have been taught to understand African writers in one way: Africans as heroes. And heroes can do only one thing: overcome enormous obstacles. But despite the political persecution that poet and novelist Chris Abani suffered in Nigeria during the ’80s, he is not a hero, and the subjects in his books [...]
27
Jan
CLINTON, N.Y. - On the eve of his execution, the man at the center of one of the 20th century’s most notorious crimes was at peace.
“In all that I have done, I hope I have done as men would have me do. I know that I am right with God, and that is the all [...]
10
Jan
Editor’s Choice Signed, Mata Hari, by Jannick Murphy, $23.99. Was she or was she not a victim of time and circumstance? Did she really deserve to be executed as a spy? In the end all that matters is that Murphy has fashioned a mesmerizing novel that reimagines the life of one of the most [...]
19
Dec
Psychedelia was intended to be seen as well as heard and felt, and high above the rolling hills and vineyards of Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, lives Stanley Mouse, who, along with others, painted, printed, airbrushed and immortalised the Haight Ashbury years into a series of images - concert posters for the Avalon or [...]
12
Dec
FOR THE THEATREGOER
When it comes to buying a holiday gift for the theatre buff in
your life, I believe in going back to basics: give ‘em the real thing.A true fan doesn’t want a T-shirt or a poster or a book about the theatre. They want to go see a play.And
although Toronto isn’t as bad as [...]
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