In her latest collection, Amanda Jernigan turns Mennonite hymns into formally exquisite poetry.
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Everything essential about Adrian Michael Kelly’s new story collection, The Ambassador of What, is right there in the very first…
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.”
Liz Harmer’s sharp-eyed debut harnesses our high-tech fears to masterful effect.
Goudreault’s despicable, politically incorrect antihero pleads his case articulately, and entertainingly.
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…