As I write, a summer rain is pounding the streets of Montreal. The trees are bent double and the thunder is ...
By Elizabeth Johnston
Fiction
Although no turf wars or settling of accounts have been reported so far, book clubs around the country are being ...
By William Brown
Rumours are percolating through the tiny Mexican town of Michoácuaro – the Norteamericano recently arrived ...
By Byron Ray Rempel
Right from the start, Liam Durcan’s debut collection of stories rips free of convention. That title may conjure up ...
By Mark Abley
Intimate Journal opens a short but in no way minor work of Brossard to a new audience. Bilingual readers, ...
By X. I. Selene
You can tell a lot about a writer by his choice of symbols. As his embodiment of post-Referendum Montreal, former ...
By Ian McGillis
Robertson Davies’ Murther & Walking Spirits features a character called the Sniffer, a pompous ...
By William Brown
Two new books of short stories are out from local publishers, a treat which seems rare these days given the ...
By Jack Ruttan
Two new books of short stories are out from local publishers, a treat which seems rare these days given the ...
By Jack Ruttan
See that hand emerging from the olive branches? It beckons you along the many roads that lead to an Athens of the ...
By Elizabeth Johnston
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
A shaggy dog story is defined as either a drawn-out tale concerning something seemingly pointless, or a drawn-out ...
By Byron Rempel