Brief encounters: “A Scandalous Woman” by Edna O’Brien
O'Brien, who died on July 27 at the age of ninety-three, caused much uproar among conservative Irish Catholics for her frank and unsparing examinations of female sexuality.
Four jurors for the Writers’ Trust Weston International Award release statement about tensions arising out of this year’s Politics and the Pen controversy
The Writers' Trust is not the only major Canadian organization facing protests over its handling of events regarding the war in Gaza.
Three new novels apply a postmodern lens to horror cinema and its practitioners
The subtextual question in each of these stories – Where, exactly, does the true horror reside? – is a provocative and pressing one.
A recently discovered, fragmentary novel by the notorious French author Céline raises questions about how – or if – to publish such posthumous work
War is potent if only for its concentration.
The new novel from Joyce Carol Oates is a Boschian descent into the mind of a deluded surgeon who runs a New Jersey asylum for women
On balance, Butcher is a savage literary provocation.
A writer’s pursuit of her latest subject leads to unexpected places in Lisa Tuttle’s uncanny novella
The unease that creeps into this story is not overwhelming, but unnerving in its very ordinariness.
In Consent, Montreal-born author Jill Ciment revisits her earlier book to raise questions about the memoir as a vessel for truth telling
Ciment does not ultimately answer any questions, content to let her reader sit with them.
Short story month 2024: Returning characters and recycled themes mark an intermittently interesting new collection from Stephen King
The biggest disappointment in this book is its relative lack of creepiness.
Salman Rushdie’s terse memoir offers a highly personal reckoning with the public attack that almost claimed his life
"Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist."
Fifty years on, Stephen King’s debut novel still retains its power to shock and disturb
Appearing in 1974, Carrie benefited from the groundswell of interest in literary horror that began with Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby.