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.
A declarative kitchen-sink realism pairs with themes of yearning and befuddlement in Allison Graves’s debut story collection
These are stories that are honest enough to meet their characters on their own terms.
Canadian writers let loose in an anthology of anonymous sexytimes stories
The stories here are entertaining enough, provocative enough, and spicy enough that their ultimate provenance doesn't really make any difference.
Literary links from around the web: A new director for Quill & Quire, an actual writer defending a Canada Reads title, and more
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Valérie Bah and Kama La Mackerel “creolize” language in a story collection that examines the interstices between its characters and their identities
The individual entries are linked by characters that drift in and out among them.