Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life
Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.
DIY veteran Jim Munroe experiments with AI art for a short-run print edition of his latest novel, We Are Raccoons
"That kind of direct connection with readers and creators is probably the majority of why I make art in the first place."
In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy
Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.
Vancouver writer Jen Sookfong Lee’s new essay collection locates itself at the intersection of pop culture and identity
Lee does not make value judgments about high or low culture: she is equally at home watching Wong-Kar Wai films without subtitles and watching twenty seasons' worth of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.
Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland
"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."
With his new short story collection, Stuart Ross continues in the spirit of underground publishing
Traces of writers as diverse as Daniil Kharms and Jorge Luis Borges are detectable in the collection.
Greek mythology, feminism, and body horror collide in Martine Desjardins’s intriguing Gothic fantasia
By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.
A quartet of novellas demonstrates the quirky versatility of the form
Metafiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy are among the genres represented in these brief and intriguing works.
In her debut novel, Manaka Raman-Wilms tackles climate change and far-right radicalization
Paced like a thriller and cast as a chase novel, The Rooftop Garden is a compulsive yet somewhat vexatious read.