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Love’s Remains

Canada’s poets have left a rich epistolary trail

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Whoville?

Make-believe residents of a displaced community

Adnan Khan

Adnan Khan published There Has to Be a Knife, his first novel, in 2019.

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Adnan Khan

Family Secrets

Anita Kushwaha’s new novel April 2020
Anita Kushwaha’s Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters is stuffed full. It gives us a prologue, an epilogue, seventy-nine chapters, and multiple sections with titles like “Fools, Fancies and Fate.” There are letters and journal entries, and we meet several interconnected families, two of whom dominate the narrative. The story is told from the alternating perspectives of Asha and…