Short story month 2024: The struggles of immigrant characters are at the heart of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut collection
The best stories in the book are less assiduous in cuing their reader as to how to react in any given moment.
Short story month 2024: The peripatetic, restless fiction of Clark Blaise
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.
Short story month 2024: Sara Power navigates the emotional terrain of wives and mothers in her debut collection
A number of these stories focus on military families. But the broader theme is the status of women and their struggle for independence and autonomy.
Sally Lane, whose memoir details her years-long struggle to rescue her son from legal limbo in a northeast Syria prison, presses her case with the Supreme Court of Canada
Governmental intransigence has been fuelled, Lane believes, by the mainstream media
Toronto poet Matthew Walsh’s second collection is a fragile negotiation with the confusion and worry of how to be fully human in our modern world
The approach to poetry and the world is tinged with surrealism and not a small dollop of humour
The characters in Jann Everard’s sensitive and precisely calibrated stories have profound relationships with the natural world
Blue Runaways is the first fiction publication from Stonehewer Books, a new independent press out of Victoria, B.C.
Vancouver writer Carleigh Baker’s sophomore collection is a piquant examination of the way we live now
The stories in Last Woman have their finger on the pulse of the current zeitgeist.
In The Double Life of Benson Yu, Kevin Chong investigates the potential for art to overcome trauma
Broadly speaking, the novel operates in the mode of metafiction.
Sheila Heti takes autofiction to its logical extreme in Alphabetical Diaries
What this amounts to is less fiction than a kind of erasure poetry.
In The Storm of Progress, media and communications expert Wade Rowland posits a way to avoid the potentially existential crises confronting us
Rowland suggests we need to re-emphasize our human predilection for moral action and goodness.