As if it wasn't enough to take The Ramayana and present it in images, this volume retells the ancient epic through the eyes of a woman. This is Sita's Ramayana. House of Anansi, 2011 Artwork by Moyna Chitrakar The original Sanskrit text is attributed to the poet Valmiki, and it is
When I was a girl and allowed to choose my own books for a special occasion, I always selected an anthology. If I'd spotted a book like Rotraut Susanne Berner's The Winter Book, it would have been a shoe in. First, my choice was practical: they were larger books. (Well,
Rawi Hage has said that De Niro's Game began as a short story. A short story that continued to grow. "I finally, out of nowhere, had a novel on my hands and I sent it to a few places and I got a few responses." The scenic construction does remind
"If you think you understand what you see on the surface, caution Atwood's fathomless parentheticals, keep looking." So says Suzanne Buffam in her introduction to the new AList edition of this classic Canlit work. (And don't you love the word 'parentheticals'?) I'm not sure that I *do* understand
For years, a set of loose photocopied pages were housed on my bookshelf with the M's. (Do you do this, too?) Then, they were tucked inside my copy of Lisa Moore's Alligator: her short story "Azalea", which first appeared in the March/April 2002 issue of THIS Magazine. I was first drawn
