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The brief novel’s propulsion and effect result from its author’s key understanding of just how far to push her technique to achieve maximum effect.
Though Bhat’s new book is described as her second novel, the individual pieces comprise all the attributes of linked stories.
The Toronto author’s story provides a metaphorical response to a very real history of trauma and violence.
Awad’s latest novel uses allusions to the Bard to tell the story of a woman whose chronic pain is miraculously alleviated.
The Vancouver journalist’s book chronicles a four-year plunge into the depths of the NXIVM miasma.
“Any story, any work of literature, any storytelling endeavour has to be both lighthouse and storm,” El Akkad says.
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.
Despite more than four decades working as a playwright, director, and screenwriter, Brad Fraser balks at the notion that he is part of the Canadian theatre establishment. Fraser, who won a provincial playwriting award as a student in Edmonton in
The through-line in Thompson’s book involves a historical inability on the part of Western culture to see Black people as fully human.
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Abel has crafted a cross-genre work that addresses questions of identity and the ways we are affected by past hurt.