31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 3: “Musique Concrète” by Amparo Dávila; Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson, trans.
Amparo Dávila's uncanny story of psychological torment has echoes of Poe and Kafka.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 2: “The Interior Castle” by Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford's story is a close and incisive work of psychological fiction.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 1: “The Finkelstein 5” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's story is a satire about the cascading violence that results from institutional racism.
31 Days of Stories 2020: Why stories?
Short stories offer a different kind of pleasure from other forms of literature, a pleasure not curtailed by a story's relatively small size.
No, the novel is not dead
Arguments that insist on the centrality of the western canon are most frequently a veil for the politics of exclusion.
The eyes have it: “I Am the Doorway” by Stephen King
Stephen King's short story "I Am the Doorway" rides the line between science fiction and horror.
Till death do us part: the literary bait-and-switch of Jill Ciment’s The Body in Question
Jill Ciment‘s novel begins as a courtroom thriller, but transforms into a fraught examination of desire and culpability.
Most Canadians are readers, prefer print books according to BookNet Canada survey
A healthy majority of Canadians are readers, according to BookNet Canada, with preferences for mysteries and history books charting high.
Hustle and flow: the Beat sensibility of John Rechy’s City of Night
John Rechy's 1963 debut novel is simultaneously a product of its time and somehow outside of time altogether.
It’s not hoarding if it’s books … But what if it is?
A bibliophile struggles to reconcile a passion for surrounding oneself with books and an impulse toward acquisitiveness.