The debut novel from Montreal author Nour Abi-Nakhoul is an hallucinatory descent into existential horror
Ontological queries pervade the novel, which is, at least in part, about the inability to outrun violence or harmful past experience.
A story that began life on Reddit becomes one of the most original, nerve-shattering horror novels in memory
The plot, which unfolds at a frantic pace, comes to resemble an M.C. Escher sketch.
Two new books on Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau offer readers, and voters, a Hobson’s choice for Canada
Canadians have a choice between a hyper-partisan Trumpian polarizer and a performative, gaffe-prone incumbent.
Violence and hope collide in Vincent Anioke’s eloquent and powerful debut collection
The irony in the volume stretches across stories, a number of which are linked.
Short story month 2024: Danlia Botha’s third collection mines persistent subjects and charts new ground
"I've always been interested in why people make the choices they make," Botha says.
Short story month 2024: Kate Segriff offers up a tough new voice in her debut collection
Segriff's preferred mode is realism.
Short story month 2024: Shashi Bhat on short stories, autofiction, and her debut collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts
The real, physical world is ever-present in these stories, most particularly in a recurring theme focusing on women's bodies.
Short story month 2024: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and giant of the short story, dies at 92
One need only read a few sentences of Munro's writing to understand that one is in the presence of literary genius.
Short story month 2024: The struggles of immigrant characters are at the heart of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut collection
The best stories in the book are less assiduous in cuing their reader as to how to react in any given moment.
Short story month 2024: The peripatetic, restless fiction of Clark Blaise
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.