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.
In her first collection of short stories, Newfoundland’s Bridget Canning performs acts of radical empathy
Canning's fiction is as intriguing for what it leaves out as for what gets included.
Saeed Teebi helps put U of T’s School of Continuing Studies on the CanLit prize map
"The more conscious you are, the more intentional you are about writing, the better you understand why your own stories work or don't," Teebi says.
Novelist and true crime author Rebecca Godfrey dead from complications due to cancer at age 54
Godfrey, who succumbed to complications from lung cancer, was "an extraordinary ... writer whose voice was clean, crisp, and daring on every page."
Get smart: John Lorinc and Josh O’Kane examine the limits of smart city technology and Sidewalk Labs’s disastrous Toronto experiment
Taken together, Dream States and Sideways comprise a particularly incisive look at the theory and practice of smart cities.