openDemocracy's editor Isabel Hilton interviews Karen Connelly on our weekly poDcast, click here to listen. This extract is from Karen Connelly's first novel, "The Lizard Cage" (Harvill Secker, 2007).

ATTICA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Attica police are searching for a Nile monitor lizard that escaped its cage. Police say on July 29 a resident was moving out of an apartment when the 4 1/2-foot long Nile monitor ...

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Connelly won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction with Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand, and her debut novel revisits Southeast Asia to soulful effect. Imprisoned in a mid-'90s ...

ATTICA, N.Y. (WROC) — The Attica Police Department is warning the public about a Nile monitor lizard that escaped its owner. According to police, while a resident was moving out of his apartment on ...