t age 11, Joseph walks in on his mother being raped and stabs the man to death. In true Oedipal ...
By Crystal Chan
don’t know what it is about whores. Or, more to the point, what it is about men who are obsessed with them, like ...
By David Homel
t is 1922, and your native city has been on fire for nine days. You have lost everything, and are living as a ...
By Eric Boodman
tories of midlife crises invite deep reflection on the past, wishful thinking of the present, and trepidations ...
By Rosel Kim
he premise of Felicia Mihali’s new novel The Darling of Kandahar is taken from a real-life event. After a ...
By Lesley Trites
he Love Monster concerns the life and times of one unfortunately named Margaret H. Atwood. ...
By Anna Leventhal
atrick Senécal’s novella, Against God, translated by Governor General’s Award winner Susan Ouriou ...
By Melissa Bull
f there’s a more endangered species than debut authors, I don’t know what it is. Handicapped by having unknown ...
By Jim Napier
There’s an illustration of a treadmill on the cover of Rob Benvie’s latest novel, Maintenance. It works, and not just because the book features several exercise sequences: a post-conjugal violence workout, a teen’s weightlifting sesh, tennis champs sweating it up on the courts, and even some allusion to a lapsed yoga habit.
By Melissa Bull
Our narrator is Hester Warnock, aged 56. She is cynical, pragmatic, unyielding, and a bit of a ball-buster.
By Sarah Lolley
More than merely “not linked,” the stories in Abray’s book demonstrate noteworthy range. They examine family, romantic relationships, childhood, loss, and mourning among other things and do so using diverse voices, points of view, and formal treatments.
By Peter Dubé
Near the beginning of Rain Falls Like Mercy, a Wyoming ranch owner tells a reporter what’s what: “You want to write about the West, you have to know the truth about this country. Take away the yarns that stretch the truth, and all you have left is the East with better scenery.”
By Eric Boodman