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Circus

By Claire Battershill

In Claire Battershill’s story “Circus,” which won the 2008 CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction, the author distinguishes between two types of circuses: the bright, friendly ones with clowns and cotton candy, and the older, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

THOU

By Aisha Sasha John

To be a corporeal creature is an incredibly lonely thing. Every bit of muscle and bone represents a distance that keeps us from each other, every aspect of our physical form is a kind of ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Fleece Era

By Joanna Lilley

U.K.-born, Yukon-based poet Joanna Lilley’s debut collection uses a wintry landscape as the backdrop for heated questions about love and life on Earth. More accurately, Lilley’s collection details our fraught relationships with Mother Nature – ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Emberton

By Peter Norman

With his debut novel, Toronto poet Peter Norman – whose first collection, At the Gates of the Theme Park, was shortlisted for the 2011 Trillium Book Award for poetry – delivers a solid, if flawed, ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

New Tab

By Guillaume Morissette

Guillaume Morissette’s first novel recounts a year in the life of 26-year-old video-game designer and part-time creative-writing student Thomas, who attempts to navigate the ambiguous social waters of Montreal circa 2010. Told in stark prose ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

For Today I Am a Boy

By Kim Fu

The debut novel from University of British Columbia MFA graduate Kim Fu considers what it means to become who you are. Peter Huang is the coveted son among three sisters in a Chinese-Canadian family. While ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ When Is a Man

By Aaron Shepard

Impotence is very hard to capture in fiction. Notwithstanding Martin Amis’s famous line about trying to squeeze an oyster into a parking meter, the effects of erectile difficulties on one’s sex life rarely make it ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels