Interview by Aja Moore Vancouver poet Adèle Barclay just released her debut poetry collection, If I Were In A Cage I’d Reach Out For You (Nightwood Editions, 2016). We talked about it over dosas the day before Halloween. I...
Interview by Anjalika Samarasekera Heather O’Neill is the bestselling, Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels. Her fourth work of fiction, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, is forthcoming from...
Review by Francine Cunningham Birdie by Tracey Lindberg HarperCollins Canada, 2016 Birdie, written by first-time novelist Tracey Lindberg, citizen of the As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and hailing from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation, tells the story of...
Review by Kyle Schoenfeld The Mercy Journals Claudia Casper Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 As with any book imagining a future world, Claudia Casper’s The Mercy Journals threads its way between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia. It’s impossible to...
Interview by Kyle McKillop What befalls the outsider? Poet, novelist, and short story writer George McWhirter has often examined the newcomer and outsider and how they manage in an unfamiliar or disdainful society. McWhirter’s first-ever published story, “The Extinction...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt Breakneck Nelly Arcan Jacob Homel, translation Anvil Press, 2015 First published in French as À ciel ouvert in 2007, Breakneck is the last of Québécoise writer Nelly Arcan’s body of work to be translated into...
Chinkstar Jon Chan Simpson Coach House Books, 2015 Review by Clara Kumagai Run is a Chinese-Scottish seventeen-year-old in Red Deer, Alberta, and he’s not particularly fond of his older brother. They clash, fight, and wrestle, and Run wonders how...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt The Mystics of Mile End Sigal Samuel Freehand Books 2015 As someone who lives on the proverbial other side of the tracks from Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood, I had high expectations for Sigal Samuel’s...