31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 6: “End Times” by Michelle Syba
Faith is, to those who don't subscribe, a kind of pandering to scared people.
31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “Meet You at the Door” by Lawrence Hill
Hill's short story was first published in the Walrus in 2011.
Carolyn Whitzman’s history of a notorious 19th century Toronto murder illustrates how much has not changed in the interim
A detailed and propulsive true crime story, Clara at the Door with a Revolver is also a work of social history.
In Letters to Little Comrade, Dan K. Woo offers a satirical, ultimately tragic view of womanhood in modern China
The brief novel's overall structure is frequently at odds with the specificity of the narrative that is unfolding.
The Journey Prize and Best Canadian Stories anthologies showcase strong offerings – and a few misfires
Each of these anthologies features a range of subjects and approaches, testifying to the richness of the landscape in Canada.
Violet Browne talks about Newfoundland’s influence, fragmenting fiction, and the real-life origins of her debut novel
"I think Quebec is Newfoundland writ large because we do have our own culture and that is so tied up in the language."
In The Fake, Zoe Whittall takes a blisteringly funny look at con artists and the people they target
Very much in the spirit of a good grift, the novel lures us in willingly before snatching all our assurances away from us.
Poetic form gets exploded and reshaped in two recent volumes from River Halen and Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
The notion of making oneself "legible" to oneself and others is at the centre of Halen's project.
“You got yourself into a Lindsay Wong story”: The author of Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality talks about ghosts, Chinese families, and her idiosyncratic approach to fiction
"I'm interested in that idea: when we transform ourselves, are we transforming our pain?"
Queer fear: an anthology of fiction and poetry reimagines horror tropes from LGBTQ+ perspectives
"These stories ask the question What is a monster? and complicate the definition of 'monster' along the way."