Anaïs Nin: A Sea of LiesLéonie Bischoff (Translated by Jenna Allen)Fantagraphics, 2023 Review by Victoria McIntyre In Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies, twisted multicoloured strands of pencil crayon depict the life and budding yearnings of the famous writer....
Photo submitted by author Interview by Renee Cronley Finnian Burnett is a writer and educator with a doctoral degree focused on using story-based pedagogy to establish equity in multicultural classrooms. Several years ago, we connected through the Facebook group...
The FutureCatherine Leroux (Translated by Susan Ouriou)Biblioasis, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Catherine Leroux’s novel The Future (freshly translated by Susan Ouriou) presents a complex, layered story that probes how people navigate turbulent times, alone and together. She asks...
We are excited to share Murgatroyd Monaghan’s poem, “Thumbs.” This piece was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Judge Mercedes Eng had this to say about the poem: The winning poem, Murgatroyd Monaghan’s “Thumbs,”...
Silver RepetitionLily WangHouse of Anansi Press, 2024 Review by Maria Isabel Martinez In the opening pages of Lily Wang’s debut novel Silver Repetition, Yué Yué is at the Poetry Jazz Café with her date Johnny, whose friend is in...
HeldAnne MichaelsKnopf, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Anne Michaels’s third novel, Held, is a dizzying marvel of both lyric beauty and structural vision. Equal parts secretive and sincere, Michaels’s latest is ever probing, seeking, as it discovers intimacies that...
PRISM is excited to share an excerpt from the powerful and imaginative essay, “Mad Fragmentations: Transmissions from the Lost Archives of Trans History” by KJ Cerankowski from our Fall 2023 issue: 62.1, available for purchase now. Mad Fragmentations: Transmissions...
Once Upon An Effing TimeBuffy CramDouglas & McIntyre, 2023 Review by Roz Milner There’s a line about the 1960s that says if you can remember it, you weren’t really there. But with that decade more than a half-century in...
We are excited to share Aaron Rabinowitz’s essay, “Young Bird.” This piece is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 CNF Contest. Judge Suzannah Showler had this to say about the piece: The winning essay, “Young Bird,” impressed me...