Naben Ruthnum, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Camilla Grudova are included in an anthology perfect for shorter days with chillier temperatures
The most blazingly unforgettable tale in the anthology has to be EC Dorgan's "Prairie Teeth."
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The most blazingly unforgettable tale in the anthology has to be EC Dorgan's "Prairie Teeth."
The books in these stories are dangerous not just for the ideas they contain, but the wounds that they inflict.
The writers are for the most part clear-eyed about the realities of the world and adept at placing them in the context of speculative fiction.
The Newfoundland of Vigil is an unforgiving place, and Taylor treats it, along with her cast of characters, without an ounce of sentimentality.
O'Brien, who died on July 27 at the age of ninety-three, caused much uproar among conservative Irish Catholics for her frank and unsparing examinations of female sexuality.
Tremblay's entire fiction is built on contingency and ambiguity.
The stories in Dance of the Happy Shades establish many of the characteristics that would come to be associated with Munro's oeuvre.
The irony in the volume stretches across stories, a number of which are linked.
"I've always been interested in why people make the choices they make," Botha says.
Canadian judge Shashi Bhat called Bouchard's story "a profoundly intelligent, fiercely original piece."