A Violent Streak Stephanie Warner Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., 2018 Review by Mormei Zanke Stephanie Warner’s debut poetry collection A Violent Streak begins with a question: “Or is it a seam?” (15). Warner doesn’t waste any time, entreating the reader to...
By Laura Anne Harris After experiencing the quintessentially small-town occurrence of sharing a cab with an older couple, only to have them pay for my entire ride, I arrived at the Malaspina Theatre in Nanaimo, British Columbia for the...
Photo credit: Zachary Ayotte By jaye simpson I had the utmost pleasure of sitting down with Vivek Shraya to to talk about her book I Am Afraid of Men (2018, Penguin Press) which has garnered widespread attention, some of which...
Angela of the Stones Amanda Hale Thistledown Press Ltd., 2018 Review by Katharine Beeman In her recent column for Juventud Rebelde, renowned Cuban intellectual Graziella Pogolotti wrote that “authentic art constitutes a specific way of knowing the most profound...
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You Know You Want This Kristen Roupenian Simon & Schuster Review by Justina Elias Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” went viral in December 2017, two months after #MeToo had become a global phenomenon. Following a twenty-year-old woman through...
Photo credit: Zemekiss Photograpy Review by Issie Patterson Any reader well-acquainted with author John Irving’s love for the uncanny will be delighted with Pacific Theater’s simultaneously hilarious and moving adaptation of his seventh novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Adapted...
In a recent review of Catriona Wright’s new book in Streeters, Eric McMillan wrote: “With their mixture of offbeat personalities, horrid situations and entertaining writing, Difficult People contains some of the most engaging new stories I’ve read for quite...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Dana Jansens Get to know writer Djamila Ibrahim, whose poems “Bloodletting” and “Brine” appear in our winter issue 57.2. If you don’t have the issue yet, have a sneak peak at “Bloodletting”, which we...