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My review copy of The Great Lunenburglary arrived with a handwritten note from the author, “Please enjoy this silly book.” Clearly, author Bryn Pottie has no literary illusions. In fact, on a recent podcast he describes his target reader for his debut novel as anyone who’s “read less than a handful of books since high
In Billie Builds a RoboCorn, the debut picture book from Toronto filmmaker José Lourenço, Billie and her father must move when her father gets a new job, and Billie must go to a new school, which is “very unfair.” Not to be kept down, the “relentlessly resourceful” Billie has a plan: she will build her ... Read more
Complex female characters? Check. Historical revolution? Check. Challenging themes of race and class? Check. Opera? Check! The World So Wide by Zilla Jones is a beefy read in more ways than one, spanning decades, countries, nationalities, lovers, and stages. It really has everything, but most importantly it has Felicit
Jami Gant is in her late 20s; she has a degree in early childhood education, teaches yoga, and designs athletic wear. In the past few months, she has lost her fiancé, her yoga studio, and her apartment, thanks to her now former fiancé, all because: “some girl who looked better in yoga pants—pants I designed and sewed,
Astrid, Aghast is the sixth book by Ottawa-area writer Ian Roy, his third collection of short stories. It’s a substantial volume containing thirty stories, a beautiful edition from Gaspereau Press, made to feel all the more substantial by the Zephyr Antique Laid stock it is printed on. The book is given a classic feel,
Though utopian fiction is far from uniform, we might modify Tolstoy’s famous dictum about unhappy families to say that every work of post-apocalyptic speculative dystopia must be unhappy, too, in its own way, and that the relationship and power dynamics its author sees persisting in the world after collapse must be par
Acclaimed author and English professor Randy Boyagoda’s latest novel, Lords of Serendipity, is set between Sri Lanka and the United States, and follows two ambitious young women whose dreams of elite higher education expose a much larger world of parental sacrifice, global inequality, institutional gatekeeping, and the
Featuring Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Jo-Ann Roberts, Jacqueline Halsey, and Marjorie Simmins
It’s very difficult to be gender-expansive in 2026. I won’t belabor the point when it’s not hard to find bad news. But one thing that’s brought me comfort in these trying times is the queer literature of the mid-late 20th century. Not because the content is particularly comforting, but because it is relatable. We are .
From the very first lines of “to be,” the opening section Kaie Kellough’s Interposition, we find ourselves descending into a nightmare, moving steadily towards a stultifying existence characterized not by connection but by the spaces between us. That sense of being caught between worlds (that word “between” again) allo
The title of Jaclyn Desforges’s new book of short fiction, Weird Babies, is absolutely appropriate. These stories are about childhood and motherhood, and they are strange. Strange and delightful, that is: the characters and their experiences are situated to one side of what we might consider normal, ranging from specul
You hear it often enough: the past clings and refuses to let go. Or how it echoes into the present with the crippling fear of repetition. It’s almost like condemnation, scorn and a warning all wrapped in one. Too much reminiscing about the past leaves you blind to the present, but forgetting leaves you susceptible ...
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