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16 March 2009

[Article by  Lucy A. Snyder]

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ARTICLE: Art and the Artist: An Interview With Clive Barker, by Lucy A. Snyder

I'm fed up with the world being divided up into the good guys and the bad guys. It just doesn't work for me. It's not a question of black hats and white hats; that's the movies.

COLUMN: Eras of Le Guin, by James Schellenberg

FICTION: Nira and I, by Shweta Narayan

Nira and I are six when her eldest brother loses his way in the mist. Three days later his bones get home. An extra finger sprouts from the left hand, and the skull has no eye sockets. But his tattered kurta tangles in the ribs, and finger bones scratch at the door for two days before the King's men come.

POETRY: Gills, by Robert Borski

Haeckel would be pleased—although / in his scheme there never was any such / things as mermaids.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Mind Over Ship by David Marusek, reviewed by Paul Raven
Wednesday: Rosa and the Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins, reviewed by Hannah Strom-Martin
Friday: The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker, reviewed by Peter Whitfield