31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 5: “My Tumour” by Jen Currin
Currin's story centres on the disjunction between Lise's more sensible attitudes and Matthew's wild suppositions.
Alberta to rewrite ministerial order to preserve classics in schools and focus only on “pornographic images”
The premier's umbrage is disingenuous to say the least.
Alberta premier accuses school board of “vicious compliance” with book ban order
The hypocrisy here is difficult to even countenance.
Leaked list identifies more than 200 books to be pulled from school library shelves in Edmonton
Contemporary authors Ali Hazelwood, Coleen Hoover, and Sarah J. Maas all have multiple titles slated for removal.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 27: “The Loves of Lady Purple” by Angela Carter
Lazarus, raised from the dead, is a potent biblical allusion for the marionette that comes to life as a woman.
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 peripatetic, restless fiction of Clark Blaise
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.
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.
Atwood, Gallant, and Dany Laferrière are among the writers and thinkers examined in Andy Lamey’s new book of essays
One of Lamey's qualities in this volume is a willingness to entertain multiple sides of a debate.
The Spooky Season: Joyce Carol Oates offers up fifteen tales of body horror by women
Body horror is by nature a visceral mode, and many of the writers here take full advantage of the gooier elements in their tales.