Martha Gellhorn was born in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri, and almost immediately was desperate to be somewhere else. She left for France in 1930 and embarked on a 60-year career as a foreign correspondent ... Read More »
In the 1960s, eight people – Jackie English, Jacqueline Dunleavy, Lynda White, Soraya O’Connell, Frankie Jensen, Scott Leishman, Helga Beer, and Bruce Stapylton – were murdered in and around the city of London, Ontario. To ... Read More »
The new novel from Victoria writer Pauline Holdstock begins with six-year-old Frankie sneaking aboard a ship bound for France. His mother has just died, and Frankie’s plan is to cross the ocean, find a police ... Read More »
September 23, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Former soldier Sandra Perron made headlines two years ago with her shocking memoir, Out Standing in the Field, about experiencing sexual harassment, rape, and physical torture from male comrades in the armed forces. A new ... Read More »
September 23, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
On the acknowledgements page of A Dark House, Ian Colford mentions the eight stories were written between 15 and 25 years ago, a period during which he regarded publication as an “impossibly lofty goal.” In ... Read More »
September 19, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
On the acknowledgements page of A Dark House, Ian Colford mentions the eight stories were written between 15 and 25 years ago, a period during which he regarded publication as an “impossibly lofty goal.” In ... Read More »
September 19, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
One of the most beguiling attributes of the short-story genre is its malleability. Stories are shape-shifters, tugging and testing the elasticity of the form in ways that often subvert readerly expectations. The title story in ... Read More »
September 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
One of the most beguiling attributes of the short-story genre is its malleability. Stories are shape-shifters, tugging and testing the elasticity of the form in ways that often subvert readerly expectations. The title story in ... Read More »
September 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Human life is fragile and precarious. No one knows this more than Ruth, the preoccupied parent at the centre of Jessica Westhead’s startling and powerfully affecting new novel. Well, perhaps one other person does, as ... Read More »
September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In 1993, M.G. Vassanji went to India for the very first time. His ancestral home by way of his grandparents has become a subject of enduring fascination – the 2007 novel The Assassin’s Song began ... Read More »
September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
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