Short story month 2024: Kate Segriff offers up a tough new voice in her debut collection
Segriff's preferred mode is realism.
Short story month 2024: Returning characters and recycled themes mark an intermittently interesting new collection from Stephen King
The biggest disappointment in this book is its relative lack of creepiness.
Short story month 2024: Shashi Bhat on short stories, autofiction, and her debut collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts
The real, physical world is ever-present in these stories, most particularly in a recurring theme focusing on women's bodies.
Short story month 2024: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and giant of the short story, dies at 92
One need only read a few sentences of Munro's writing to understand that one is in the presence of literary genius.
Short story month 2024: The struggles of immigrant characters are at the heart of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut collection
The best stories in the book are less assiduous in cuing their reader as to how to react in any given moment.
Short story month 2024: The peripatetic, restless fiction of Clark Blaise
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.
Kagiso Lesego Molope ejected from last night’s Politics and the Pen event after condemning violence in Gaza
The incident occurred during the annual Ottawa fundraiser for the Writers' Trust of Canada.
Recent incidents at Queen Books and Little Ghosts in Toronto shine a spotlight on the incursion of American-style transphobia into Canada
Public support for booksellers who are outspoken about their advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and communities seems strong.
Short story month 2024: Sara Power navigates the emotional terrain of wives and mothers in her debut collection
A number of these stories focus on military families. But the broader theme is the status of women and their struggle for independence and autonomy.
Paul Auster, Brooklyn’s postmodernist par excellence, dies at 77
Auster has been called many things: "the most meta of metafictional writers," "the patron saint of literary Brooklyn," a "literary superstar."