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Red Girl Rat Boy

By Cynthia Flood

Journey Prize–winning short-story writer Cynthia Flood has a new collection, her fourth, and it showcases her narrative sensitivity, historical range, and courage in using foul language. This relatively slim collection of 11 stories features a ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Savage Love

By Douglas Glover

There are familiar reasons why more people don’t recognize Douglas Glover as one of Canada’s best writers – chief among them the fact that he mainly writes experimental short fiction published by small presses. One ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Watch How We Walk

By Jennifer LoveGrove

At some point, every kid who had Jehovah’s Witness classmates must have wondered what happened when their secretive peers skipped the after-school extracurriculars and disappeared behind their front doors. For curious outsiders, Watch How We ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My Ghosts

By Mary Swan

With her second novel, author Mary Swan seems to be issuing a challenge to readers: pay attention. It’s not just that her book is complex, layered, and boasts a large cast of characters – though ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels