Mike Steeves’ Bystander
by Sadie Graham
At the beginning of Bystander, Mike Steeves’ sophomore novel, the as-yet unnamed narrator makes a…
Mike Steeves’ Bystander
S. D. Chrostowska’s The Eyelid
by Jeff Bursey
Early in The Eyelid, a work wrapped in the silk of sleep and arms of…
Martha Schabas’ My Face in the Light
by Brett Josef Grubisic
With the bracing first paragraph of My Face in the Light, I anticipated an intense…
If We Had A Can Lit That Worked
by Ken Norris
A response to John Metcalf’s Temerity & Gall.
“Love is a green wash over the visible world”: Remembering Milton W. Jewell (1938–2021)
by Bruce Whiteman
I met Milt in the mid-1970s. My wife and I had moved to Toronto in…
A Pack a Day
by Ronald L. Grimes
In the beginning lush San Diego was the Garden of Eden. At the end, when…
Hal Niedzviecki’s The Lost Expert
by Alex Good
A few years ago, in a review of Maureen Medved’s Black Star, I observed how a lot of women in Canadian novels were going insane in eerily similar ways.
Write, Print, Fold, and Staple
by Jim Johnstone
On poetry chapbooks.
Susan Olding’s Big Reader; Essays
by Jeff Miller
“An essay was never about just one thing,” writes Susan Olding.
Wayne Johnston’s The Mystery of Right and Wrong
by Kate Kennedy
Wayne Johnston’s latest novel begins in 1969 as the van Hout family, Hans and Myra…