Death by a Thousand Cuts Shashi Bhat Penguin Random House, 2024. Review by Bethany Lake There is an old school of thought in literature to make no mention of technology for fear of dating the written work. In her...
Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian RevolutionBänoo Zan and Cy Strom, EditorsGuernica Editions, 2025 Reviewed by Jeannine M. Pitas On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa “Jina” Amini, a Kurdish minority in Iran, was beaten to death by the...
The Sisters K by Maureen SunUnnamed Press, 2024 Review by Jessica PoonThree sisters and an egomaniac dad are foundational to both Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The Sisters K, by Maureen Sun, shares tasting notes with...
by Janice Weizman In blogs, opinion pieces, and online forums responding to Alice Munro’s silence in the face of her daughter, Andrea Skinner’s revelations of sexual abuse at the hands of Munro’s second husband, I came across numerous responses...
ANOMIABy Jade WallacePalimpsest Press, 2024Review by Margaryta Golovchenko There is a special quality to a novel written by a poet. This is very much the case with ANOMIA, the debut novel by Jade Wallace, who forms one half of...
How to Be AloneHeather Nolan Goose Lane Press, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Knowing that Heather Nolan is also a songwriter, one’s tempted to view the structure of their second book, How to Be Alone, like a lyric with...
Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt, translated by Susan OuriouBook*hug Press, 2024 Review by Michelle HardyWhen French-Canadian celebrity chef Adam Dumont accidentally smashes his rental surfboard into the knee of local nineteen-year-old Celia Smith off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard,...
BroughtupsyChristina Cooke House of Anansi Press, 2024 Review by Laurence Lewis Neal To read Broughtupsy is to exist, for the duration of its pages, inside a rip. Playing with form allows authors to communicate something visceral, and Christina Cooke’s...
In this Double Feature, PRISM international is proud to share Deborah Vail’s review of Kathryn Mockler’s book Anecdote, followed by Vail’s interview with the author. Anecdotes Kathryn MocklerBook*hug Press, 2023 Diving into Anecdotes, Kathryn Mockler’s unique debut collection of...