Reviewed by Leah Bobet Jeff Miller, Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, 2026), 320 pp., $26.99. Temporary Palaces takes an intriguing twist on the CanLit formula: two thirtysomething artists reunite to excavate the broken promises and might-have-beens of the place that made them. Except Miller’s...
I’ve seen you around & that means everything bellies swollen with our histories and appetites. I am eating the world with you inside it. Nation Makes is a trans poet and neuroscientist living in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke. Their work examines how the brain and body conspire to create...
Frank is concerned that the drugs I have to take to induce lactation will make me want to kill myself again, but on the warm June afternoon when I fill the domperidone prescription at Pharmasave, I find it hard to imagine. I keep telling people I don’t eat at McDonald’s anymore but we thought this...
for Sarah We begin at the wicker lounge chair, B’s first big tooth cutting, but grin goofy she walks me to the kitchen & back, steps unsteady round & round her dimpled knuckles squeeze my finger while you drink the care I brought: a medium Chai latte. On Fridays, we start water for tea...
Reviewed by Paul Leonard Jean-Christophe Réhel, All Kidding Aside, trans. Neil Smith (Baraka Books, 2025), 306 pp., $24.95. Jean-Christophe Réhel is a young Québecois writer, known for his collections of poetry, his novels, his television scripts, and his columns (both poems and prose) in the...
[FIRST SCENE – SUMMONING] The livestream focuses on four hot gays, the Hex Boys, standing on a cliff overlooking the roiling sea: 1. Ciaran St. Clair The charismatic one; cropped hair, dark skin, tapered jaw; leather jacket with pockets hiding his hands, each finger sporting one or two silver rings...
