The Uglies, by Scott Westerfield

I admit that I’m a sucker for a great cover design and a catchy title, which is why I initially picked up a copy of this YA sci-fi novel (the first in an ever-expanding series).
The novel follows a 16-year-old ‘Ugly’ named Tally Youngblood, so-called because she has not yet undergone the all-but-mandatory cosmetic surgery that [...]

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One Yellow Rabbit’s “Sylvia Plath Must Not Die”

Last night at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts I went to see the Calgary-based theatre collective One Yellow Rabbit perform one of their latest shows “Sylvia Plath Must Not Die”. I was drawn to the piece simply because my graduate performance thesis project was about Sylvia Plath. It was lovely to have [...]

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Sweetness in the Belly, by Camilla Gibb

During the year and a half Camilla Gibb spent living in the Ethopian city of Harar, the intent was to work, not on her third novel, but on her Ph.D. in anthropology. In a Danforth Review interview, Gibb’s touches on an issue that most academics have faced, “Part of what depressed me about my thesis [...]

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