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The Vancouver journalist’s book chronicles a four-year plunge into the depths of the NXIVM miasma.
From 17th century Gothic novels to the modern-day zombie story, the horror novel continues to fascinate readers and evolve in the literary consciousness.
Though marred by some sloppy writing and digressions, Brown’s book provides a valuable counter to a justice system in thrall to wealth and influence.
As a leader of the Anthropodermic Book Project, Rosenbloom has for years been ensconced in the realm of anthropodermic bibliopegy – in lay terms, the practice of binding books in human skin.
Despite more than four decades working as a playwright, director, and screenwriter, Brad Fraser balks at the notion that he is part of the Canadian theatre establishment. Fraser, who won a provincial playwriting award as a student in Edmonton in
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.
Upending the radical vision of much 1960s and ’70s American horror cinema, the following decades saw a reactionary retrenchment, argues the academic and critic.
The Irish critic writes that horror, like all avant-garde art, operates at the extremes and tests its recipients’ tolerance levels.
Clover codified the notion of the final girl, but her 1992 text on the modern horror film extends her inquiry further than just that.