★ Vancouver Noir

The dark underbelly of Vancouver is exposed in the crime anthology Vancouver Noir, the third Canadian book in the infamous and ongoing international noir series by Akashic Books. Edited by Sam Wiebe, author of the ... Read More »

September 24, 2018 | Filed under: Anthologies

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland: Letters

By Laura K. Davis (ed.); Linda M. Morra (ed.)

In the 1960s Margaret Laurence was the most highly praised female novelist in the country, the author of such important works as The Tomorrow-Tamer, The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Fire-Dwellers. This ... Read More »

May 7, 2018 | Filed under: Anthologies, Memoir & Biography

Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction

By Dominik Parisien (ed.)

Anthologies of themed short stories carry a significant risk: if the theme is too rigid or overpowering, the stories themselves may be hampered or crippled. Conversely, if the theme is too loose, any sense of ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Anthologies

Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts

By Lucas K. Law (ed.); Susan Forest (ed.)

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995–2014

By Alice Munro

At a recent book fair in Toronto, I chatted with a woman who wrote YA zombie novels. She told me she reads mostly horror fiction, and that she found mainstream Canadian literature “boring.” When she ... Read More »

January 5, 2015 | Filed under: Anthologies

Nothing Looks Familiar

By Shawn Syms

The stories in the debut collection from Toronto writer, editor, and critic (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Shawn Syms, draw back the comforter to reveal the tattered, blood-stained sheets beneath. That might seem like a forced ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia; ed.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia knows apocalypses. Her previous anthology for Exile Editions, Dead North, featured an entire volume of them, brought on by a blight of zombies. Her latest carries on telling stories of Canadians on the ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

Shy: An Anthology

By Naomi K. Lewis and Rona Altrows, eds.

One would think that, much like the population at large, writers’ personalities range from the loud, bold, and raucous bravado of Hemingway or Dorothy Parker to the undiagnosed agoraphobia of Emily Dickinson, with most falling ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies

The STU Reader: Poetry, Prose and Fiction by St. Thomas University Writers

By Douglas Vipond and Russell A. Hunt, eds.

St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, offers a liberal arts education, which, given our current obsession with job training, is increasingly rare for post-secondary institutions. The year 2010 marks St. Thomas’s centenary, and this ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ The Best Canadian Essays 2009

By Alex Boyd and Carmine Starnino, eds.

The word “essay” comes from the French verb essayer, which means “to try.” Essays, therefore, should always be considered works in progress. But the 14 pieces in Best Canadian Essays 2009, culled from literary and ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Anthologies

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