As literary genre, the Bookish Woman in the Woods poses a unique set of challenges. Among its many perils is the ...
By X. I. Selene
Fiction
A shaggy dog story is defined as either a drawn-out tale concerning something seemingly pointless, or a drawn-out ...
By Byron Rempel
"Je suis en deuil," we are told on the first page of Visiting Elizabeth. Even those who are only ...
By Poppy Wilkinson
Reading Montrealer Mark Paterson's collection of short stories made me think about how someone else's shower could ...
By Sylvia Rich
Translator, fiction writer, and interpreter Susan Ouriou begins her career as a novelist with Damselfish, a ...
By Kelly Murphy
Vaudeville!, set in New York City just before the stock market crash of 1929, opens in the sinister setting ...
By Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach
India, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Vancouver, Calgary, London, Cairo, Alexandria. When your family map ...
By Ian McGillis
Nine years have passed since the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis put Rwanda on the mental map of the west, which means ...
By Edward R. Smith
Black Bird commences with a caveat:
Readers with long memories or a command of Canadian history will ...
By X. I. Selene
Wendy MacIntyre, in The Applecross Spell, has written a provocative novel with a strong feminist and ...
By Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach
I was lying alone in the dark recently when an old Roy Orbison tune, "Falling," came on the radio, reaching across ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Dana Bath's is also concerned with feminist issues. The opening story, set in Japan, raises questions about ...
By Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach