The Ambassador of What Adrian Michael Kelly ECW Press, 2018 Review by Jessica Torrens The Ambassador of What takes tough fathers and striving sons to a whole new level. Akin to his debut novel Down Sterling Road, in this...
Praised by Zoe Whittall, Djamila Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, Things Are Good Now, is a thoughtful exploration of immigrant experiences and universal themes that concern us all – identity, memory, resilience, and the complicated, and often sticky, web of human relationships. Continue reading Things Are Good Now: In Conversation with Djamila Ibrahim
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with recent City of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist Patricia Young to discuss her nominated poetry collection (and ninth, total) “Short Takes on the Apocalypse“. Chagall’s Lovers – Patricia Young ...
Review by Will Preston What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Penguin Random House, 2016 Late in Helen Oyeyemi’s beguiling new collection of stories, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a character becomes obsessed with...
Review by Adrick Brock Russell Smith’s latest collection of short fiction, Confidence (Biblioasis, 2015), catalogues the lives of Toronto’s has-been hipsters as they navigate the disappointments of their middle ages. Coolness is the philosopher’s stone in Smith’s world, and...