“I eat those words like they is food”: The prismatic poetry of Pamela Mordecai
It would be salutary to see critics inside and outside of the academy pick up this book and engage with it thoroughly and thoughtfully.
Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson fiction shortlist comprises entirely books from independent Canadian presses
Two collections of short fiction and two works in translation are represented on a list that spans the country from PEI to Alberta.
Return of Globe’s Arts & Books section features one book review – of a book by a Globe columnist
The single book review was of a book by technology columnist Josh O'Kane.
The Great War provides the backdrop for a story about death and resurrection on an industrial scale
The Talosite exists at the confluence of sci-fi and body horror, with the actual horrors of the First World War a constant shadow in the background.
“Peeking behind the curtain of Oz”: Joshua Whitehead talks about his new book of essays, the limitations of genre, and the rigidity of the English language
"If I could go back, I might tell younger me, 'Don't do this.' "
Montreal author Kevin Lambert channels Jean Genet in a scalding novel about sex and class warfare
Lambert uses the structure of a classical Greek tragedy to tell the story of a strike at a sawmill and the amoral, charismatic figure caught up in it.
Is publishing in Canada broken? No, but dismissing an entire segment of the ecosystem certainly doesn’t help
Rather than farm teams, it's preferable to think of smaller publishers as craft breweries or artisinal vineyards.
Casey Plett will be everywhere in fall 2022 and spring 2023
Plett's own debut collection of short fiction, A Safe Girl to Love, is being reissued by her current publisher, Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press.
Controversial journalist and confessed “sex radical” Gerald Hannon’s memoir provides an overview of LGBTQ+ history over the past four decades
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.
Fawn Parker deconstructs male ego and the image of the great man in literature and academia in two angry, unflinching novels
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.