Darren Greer (Halifax) “Like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers or William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Tennessee Williams’ experimental novel Moise and the World of Reason is a thinly disguised pan-dimensional portrait of the writer himself—a scathing...
Rachel Rose (Vancouver) “In Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, Andrew Solomon’s quest is to explore those traits, whether acquired or inherent, that separate parents from children. In chapters such as “Deaf,” “Dwarf,” “Autism,” “Rape,” and “Prodigies,” Solomon...
by Arleen Paré ask yourself how you bear this state everyday this chromosomal state of x and x like the day you step from the number 17 cross the street up the concrete steps faster along the everyday academic corridor into the university classroom late and a boy with a semi...
The International IMPAC Dublin Award is the world’s richest literary award — the winner takes home €100,000! But that is beside the point (right?). Libraries from all over the world nominate books for their literary merit, and this year Ashley Little’s novel Anatomy of a Girl...
Hot off the press! For digital editions, subscribe here. You can also subscribe to receive Issue 4 & Issue 5 as digital editions. Medieval same-sex weddings, chaperoned dates with Dad, poems to confront domestic abuse in queer relationships, and why Jeanette Winterson is dangerous! Includes...
John Miller (Toronto) “I was thrilled to hear that Ann-Marie MacDonald had a new novel coming out, her first in ten years. In 1996, I had been ruminating about beginning what would become my first novel, The Featherbed, but I lacked the courage to begin writing. Then I picked up Fall On Your...
