Say My Name: The Alchemical Magic of “Rumpelstiltskin”
By Souvankham Thammavongsa
When we read, the experience of reading is not always just the book in front…
Say My Name: The Alchemical Magic of “Rumpelstiltskin”
Beautiful Ruin
by Richard Sanger
“Whew! Did you see that?” We’re driving to Havana and Debbie, my wife, is speaking.…
Canada’s Golden Brown Age
By Kamal Al-Solaylee
As a new adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” hits the screen as a Deepa…
Cold War, Warm Bed
By Brian Busby
Truth proves elusive in Tom Ardies’ 1971 Cold War thriller about a millionaire presidential candidate in possible cahoots with the Russians.
It All Adds Up
by Rod Moody-Corbett
Saul Bellow’s oft-downplayed Canadianness is key to his best fiction
Writing the Real
by Catherine Bush
Representing the climate crisis in fiction.
Arielle Twist’s Disintegrate/Dissociate and Domenica Martinello’s All Day I Dream About Sirens
by Andreae Callanan
Arielle Twist’s elegant debut ends with a powerful postscript: “Ah-hay, my Indigiqueer and Two-…
Richard Stursberg’s The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age
by Alex Good
Our first warnings about the internet’s impact grew out of our personal experience of it.…
Sophie Bienvenu’s Worst Case, We Get Married
by Brett Josef Grubisic
“Ill at ease”: that’s the phrase, antique but applicable. With Sophie Bienvenu’s one-of-a-kind Worst Case,…
Mona Awad’s Bunny
by Rudrapriya Rathore
Samantha Heather Mackey isn’t like the other MFA students at Warren University, an Ivy-League school…