Lands and Forests

“[H]e was bound to a life shaped by fire,” ruminates a character in the title story of Andrew Forbes’s second short-story collection. Fire persists as either a literal or figurative force of destruction throughout Lands ... Read More »

May 2, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Shut Up You’re Pretty

By Téa Mutonji

Shut Up You’re Pretty, the debut collection of linked short stories by Toronto writer Téa Mutonji, is the inaugural book in Vivek Shraya’s VS. Books imprint at Arsenal Pulp Press. Told from the perspective of ... Read More »

April 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Coconut Dreams

By Derek Mascarenhas

April 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Collapsible

By Tim Conley

“Avant-garde writing in English Canada has never enjoyed much more than a token degree of prestige among the literati of this country,” write Gregory Betts and Christian Bök in the introduction to their recent critical ... Read More »

April 11, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Moccasin Square Gardens

By Richard Van Camp

The fact that Richard Van Camp doesn’t have his own national radio show, à la the late Stuart McLean, is a bit of a disappointment. Van Camp is Canada’s greatest oral storyteller, a brilliant weaver ... Read More »

April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Immigrant City

By David Bezmozgis

In his sophomore volume of short fiction, David Bezmozgis deepens his exploration of the fates and furies that beset Jewish immigrants as they struggle with the unwieldy claims of the past. Replete with the wry ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Divided Loyalties

By Nilofar Shidmehr

“I arrive in Tehran two days after my brother called to inform me about Dad’s death,” says Maana Khanoom at the opening of the title story in the new collection by Iranian-Canadian poet and ... Read More »

January 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Angela of the Stones

By Amanda Hale

Every now and then, a short story appears that manages, through the author’s sheer craft, to compress all the emotional and narrative heft of a novel into 15 or 20 pages. Alice Munro has built ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Tread and Other Stories

By Barry Dempster

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

All the Lonely People: Collected Stories

By Barry Callaghan

Barry Callaghan holds a position in the Canadian literary firmament that is at once praiseworthy and unenviable. Callaghan wrested himself from the shadow of his father, CanLit icon Morley Callaghan, to create a varied career ... Read More »

December 10, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Fiction: Short, Reviews

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