Inkstuds: Interviews with Cartoonists

The interviews in Inkstuds originated as a Vancouver-based podcast and college radio show. As editor Robin McConnell notes, both comics and college radio thrive on the margins, where experimentation is a virtue, and anything goes ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Napier’s Bones

By Derryl Murphy

So much has already been done in the realm of speculative fiction that merely taking the reader somewhere new is an accomplishment. Napier’s Bones heads off into uncharted territory via the notion of magical mathematics. ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Among Others

By Jo Walton

With her new novel, World Fantasy Award winner Jo Walton, who was born in Wales and now lives in Montreal, delivers a rarity in this post-Harry Potter, post-Twilight world: a novel focused on young adult ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Better Living Through Plastic Explosives

By Zsuzsi Gartner

Zsuzsi Gartner’s 1999 debut story collection, All the Anxious Girls on Earth, effectively captured millennial jitters by presenting readers with a gallery of relatable heroines driven to extreme actions by the centrifugal force of the ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Cold Night for Alligators

By Nick Crowe

Jasper is unsatisfied with his job, his girlfriend Kim, and his life in general, but seems unable to break out of his rut. Change is thrust upon him – literally – when he is pushed ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Four Stages of Cruelty

By Keith Hollihan

Ditmarsh Penitentiary is a world unto itself, with its own hierarchies, social codes, twisted relationships, and history. It also has its own secrets, as corrections officer Kali Williams discovers early in The Four Stages of ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Divinity Gene

By Matthew J. Trafford

In these unique and wildly imaginative stories, Matthew J. Trafford pairs crisp diction with unpredictable plots: you think you’re going to arrive on the third floor, but the elevator takes you to another floor altogether, ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Two Generals

By Scott Chantler

Scott Chantler’s new graphic novel for adults tells the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy – focusing on the little-known battle of Buron – from the perspective of two Canadian soldiers in the Highland ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman

By Goran Simic

In Goran Simic we have a modern problem: a major writer – Simic is one of the leading poets of his native Bosnia, which he escaped with his family in 1995 – working in the ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

The Fetch

By Nico Rogers

Nico Rogers’ collection of prose poems about life in the outport towns of Newfoundland a generation ago has a close precedent in Michael Crummey’s Hard Light (1988), also published by Brick Books. The first half ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

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A Cold Night for Alligators

The Four Stages of Cruelty

The Divinity Gene

Two Generals

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman

The Fetch

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