A Hunter’s Confession

The title of Warren Cariou’s foreword to Welcome to Canada, a volume of David Carpenter’s new and selected stories, is “You Are Now Entering Carpenter Country.” Carpenter’s fictional landscape – located mainly in the outposts ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Doctrine of Affections

By Paul Headrick

In music, the “doctrine of the affections” is the theory that a composer can elicit involuntary emotions in listeners by utilizing certain techniques, such as large or small intervals between notes (meant to invoke joy ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

What We’re Made Of

By Ryan Turner

As its title suggests, this debut collection of linked short stories by Halifax native Ryan Turner investigates the core components of its characters’ lives. Told in stripped-down prose, the book’s overarching narrative traces the coming ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

No Place Fit for a Child

By Wade Bell

Alberta-based former oilman Wade Bell crafts vivid emotional and geographic terrains in his latest short-fiction collection, No Place Fit for a Child. The seeming permanence of nature in the face of human failings is a ... Read More »

January 18, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Extraordinary Canadians: L.M. Montgomery

By Jane Urquhart

While not an entirely new “Anne book,” The Blythes Are Quoted is nevertheless a valuable addition to the Montgomery canon. It was the author’s final manuscript, delivered to her publishers the day she died, and ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Blythes Are Quoted

By L.M. Montgomery; L.M. Montgomery

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Boys Like and Other Stories

By Amy Jones

At the heart of Toronto-based Amy Jones’s Metcalf-Rooke Award-winning debut is a whirlpool of dissatisfaction and longing – the ache of teenage alienation; the fitful malaise of relationships; the anguish of unrequited intimacy. But almost ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Box

By George Bowering

Each of the 10 stories in George Bowering’s latest collection is prefaced by a photograph. The photos bear some relation to the accompanying stories, but serve more to pique the reader’s interest than to illustrate ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Moon of Letting Go

By Richard Van Camp

Richard Van Camp’s newest collection of short stories is in many ways a natural progression from his prior works. Again drawing on his Dogrib Nation background, he seamlessly blends the beauty, violence, and pride of ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

★ postcard and other stories

By Anik See

Those who complain about the sclerotic and uninspiring nature of CanLit are usually directing their ire toward novels and novelists: it is rare to hear such complaints levelled at short-story collections. This is because, along ... Read More »

November 30, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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