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Kraków Melt

By Daniel Allen Cox

The second novel by Montreal writer Daniel Allen Cox displays the same visceral, urgent narrative style as his debut, Shuck, which was shortlisted for a 2008 Lambda Literary Award and a 2009 ReLit Award. Whereas ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Far to Go

By Alison Pick

Although set in the months leading up to Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Alison Pick’s second novel does not wrestle with sweeping ideological conceits about the nature of evil or the burden of memory. The Holocaust ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Practical Jean

By Trevor Cole

Trevor Cole’s refreshingly candid and complex portraits of contemporary masculinity have won a lot of praise and loyalty from a Canadian readership that, at least according to conventional publishing wisdom, prefers female-centric fiction. It’s true ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Missed Her

By Ivan E. Coyote

Relationships. Clothes. Food. Haircuts. Little dogs. Cab rides. Sex. All of these things carry heavy meaning in the writing of Ivan E. Coyote. Her specialty, and ultimately her strength, lies in putting the simple, subtle ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short