Best Young Woman Job BookEmma HealeyRandom House Canada, 2022 Review by Kristina Rothstein On first perusal, Emma Healey’s Best Young Woman Job Book might seem like a slightly unconventional memoir. It could be read as a young writer’s life...
Love Me TenderConstance DebréTranslated by Holly JamesSemiotext(e), 2022 Review by Thea McLachlan “What is this insane world I’m living in?” Constance Debré asks midway through her memoir Love Me Tender (published by Semiotext(e), translated by Holly James). Caught in...
Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and PoetryEdited by David Ly and Daniel ZomparelliArsenal Pulp Press, 2022 Review by Sierra Riley Monsters and ghosts are inseparable from their queer contexts. Werewolves, Medusa, Mr. Hyde and Mothman—these creatures...
TripticksAnn QuinAnd Other Stories, 2022 Review by Thea McLachlan With life being as loud, hyper saturated, and cloying as it is, there isn’t much space to marshall desperately the bits of body, bile, memory, and spirit, the cute things...
Beatrice and Croc HarryLawrence HillHarper Collins, 2022 Review by Edie Reaney Chunn Palaver Bumfuzzled Honey bucket What do these words have in common? Each of them is in The Saint Lawrence Dictionary of Only the Best Words, Real and...
Quiet Night ThinkGillian SzeECW Press, 2022 Review by Rebecca Mangra “What emerges from long looking?” Gillian Sze, in her new book Quiet Night Think, asks readers the question in one of her essays. Long looking requires held attention to...
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st CenturyKim FuCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Simon Lowe Canadian author Kim Fu’s timely, genre-exploiting collection of short stories, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, is a weird, mind blowing examination of...
Find a Place for MeDeirdre FaganRegal House Publishing, 2022 Review by Diane Gottlieb “I have ALS.” These are the words Deirdre Fagan’s forty-three year-old husband spoke just days after Christmas 2011. Bob, the father of their children (who were...
The Scent of LightKristjana GunnarsCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Kris Rothstein This winter, the term “autofiction” followed me around until I felt the need to investigate further. At its most obvious it is autobiographical fiction—but just below the...