A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
One need not agree with everything the author writes or believes in order to recognize the importance of his memoir as a document of the LGBTQ+ community's development in Canada.
Despite some missteps and shots at easy targets, Parker's novels combine to form a provocative riposte to a culture that valorizes a certain kind of profane masculinity.
Like Animals has a modernist sheen, providing a chaotic surface reflective of its protagonist's conflicted and disaffected psychology.
"Even though I've been living in this country for twenty-two years and this is for all intents and purposes my home – it's where I intend to live the rest of my life – elsewhere is this notion that one or two pieces are missing," says Abdelmahmoud.
In her imaginative sequel to Sputnik's Children, Favro comments on the nature and responsibility of storytelling.
Ruthnum's brief work of fin-de-siècle body horror reads like a mash-up of David Cronenberg and Henry James.
The novel, which is structured to resemble a double album of interconnected tracks, follows a cast of characters searching for a sense of belonging.
Canadian-Irish writer Colin Barrett is a wizard with language that sings with the rhythms and cadences of the working class.
In this story about a man’s assignation with a married woman, the chaos and culture of Buenos Aires serve as metaphors for the couple’s incompatibility.
Hage’s story of a doomed, ineffectual man is a layered consideration of religion, history, and the nature of celebrity.