A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
“Any story, any work of literature, any storytelling endeavour has to be both lighthouse and storm,” El Akkad says.
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.
“I realized the adult world was every bit as fucked up as anything else."
The through-line in Thompson’s book involves a historical inability on the part of Western culture to see Black people as fully human.
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Abel has crafted a cross-genre work that addresses questions of identity and the ways we are affected by past hurt.
In Atwoodian terms, O’Neill’s story represents a conflation of doomed animals and survival.
Two stories about pleasure and pain interrogate the nature of trust and what we risk when we relinquish control.
Diane Schoemperlen’s plaintive tale is about what happens when youthful promise gives way to the creeping disillusion of adulthood.
Eva Crocker’s dual father-and-son narration draws parallels between two characters trapped in their own lives.
Sofi Papamarko’s superhero origin story takes a little-known historical tragedy and imagines a different outcome.