“You just clench your teeth and keep on going”: Linden MacIntyre on masculinity, moral ambiguity, and why he hates golf
“I didn’t have much of a relationship with masculinity growing up,” MacIntyre says. “I grew up among women.”
Aimee Wall’s debut novel recalls a 1960s underground movement in a story told through precise, exuberant language
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.
Shashi Bhat blurs the line between novels and short fiction in her new book, The Most Precious Substance on Earth
Though Bhat’s new book is described as her second novel, the individual pieces comprise all the attributes of linked stories.
A book of blood: David Demchuk’s queer horror novel addresses real-life terrors
The Toronto author’s story provides a metaphorical response to a very real history of trauma and violence.
“There is something about the body that I find monstrous”: Mona Awad on Shakespeare, comedy, and her new novel, All’s Well
Awad’s latest novel uses allusions to the Bard to tell the story of a woman whose chronic pain is miraculously alleviated.
Control tactics: Sarah Berman discusses writing about Keith Raniere, NXIVM, and a self-empowerment scheme that masked the wanton abuse of countless women
The Vancouver journalist’s book chronicles a four-year plunge into the depths of the NXIVM miasma.
When you’re a stranger: Omar El Akkad follows up his bestselling debut with a novel that represents a stark departure in form and subject
“Any story, any work of literature, any storytelling endeavour has to be both lighthouse and storm,” El Akkad says.
Not what they seem: P.J. Vernon and Carrie Jenkins deliver queer thrillers with very different tones and approaches
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.
“I wanted to stimulate people”: Canadian playwright Brad Fraser on provocation, the theatrical establishment, and his new memoir
“I realized the adult world was every bit as fucked up as anything else."
“They don’t see it until they see it”: Cheryl Thompson on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kevin Hart, and the legacy of a complicated literary figure
The through-line in Thompson’s book involves a historical inability on the part of Western culture to see Black people as fully human.