When we read, the experience of reading is not always just the book in front of us. It is also…
“Whew! Did you see that?” We’re driving to Havana and Debbie, my wife, is speaking. I’m sitting in the front…
As a new adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” hits the screen as a Deepa Mehta–directed feature film, Kamal Al-Solaylee…
“Black Star” is one of the better entries in a string of recent novels featuring protagonists losing their grip on reality.
“His wig and the heels of his clown shoes added some height, but Alice could reach his throat in a moment, if need be.”
Classes, conversations, and readings are the lifeblood of Toronto’s poetry-only bookshop.
Though it has strayed from its 1940s communist roots, Vancouver’s Co-op Books still prides itself on its progressive, left-leaning approach.
Anthropocene, the book, embodies the moral and aesthetic contradictions of the project as a whole.
Animal sentience has become a hot topic in recent fiction, and none too soon. At a time when science is showing that animals do indeed have language—a recent study of canebrake wrens suggests that birdsong is governed by a complex, learned set of social rules, much like human communication—it’s encouraging to see more fiction that
Cameron Anstee’s “Book of Annotations” and Alice Major’s “Welcome to the Anthropocene.”