While burying his cat, Shadow, the protagonist of Blood Fable, an unnamed, precocious boy of eleven, mysteriously claims to remember…
In the violence-prone suburban Toronto housing complex that serves as the setting for David Chariandy’s Writers’ Trust Prize-winning novel, the…
In his ground-breaking essay on the uncanny, Sigmund Freud describes the phenomenon as “that class of the terrifying which leads…
Authors have various reasons for adopting pseudonyms. One of the more interesting is the bet against celebrity. Stephen King took…
Hailed as being in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” I imagined that Benjamin Hertwig’s debut, Slow…
The third novel by Lebanese-Canadian playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad opens with Wahhch Debch, a Lebanese man now living in…
It was author Russell Smith, I think, who made an astute observation in one of his Globe and Mail columns…
The death of a child is an experience that most of us—parents especially—cannot bear to imagine, and certainly cannot imagine…
“Why am I here?” John Roberts asks Martha, his wife of over fifty years, as they stand on the rocky…
It would be hard to overstate the chances Marianne Apostolides takes in her new memoir, Deep Salt Water, which twins…
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