This One Because of the Dead

Toronto authors Zalika Reid-Benta and Laure Baudot take markedly different approaches to their debut collections of short fiction. Reid-Benta’s book, Frying Plantain, is a coming-of-age sequence that takes an honest and penetrating look at the ... Read More »

May 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Frying Plantain

By Zalika Reid-Benta

May 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Meteorites

By Julie Paul

Absences recur throughout the 14 stories in Victoria author Julie Paul’s third collection. From the opening piece, about a man on vacation in Hawaii being haunted by the ghost of his dead father, to the ... Read More »

May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ This Wicked Tongue

By Elise Levine

When examining two new collections of short fiction as disparate and distinct as Elise Levine’s This Wicked Tongue and Kris Bertin’s Use Your Imagination!, it might seem appropriate, if not natural, to set the books ... Read More »

May 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Use Your Imagination!

By Kris Bertin

May 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Lands and Forests

By Andrew Forbes

“[H]e was bound to a life shaped by fire,” ruminates a character in the title story of Andrew Forbes’s second short-story collection. Fire persists as either a literal or figurative force of destruction throughout Lands ... Read More »

May 2, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Shut Up You’re Pretty

By Téa Mutonji

Shut Up You’re Pretty, the debut collection of linked short stories by Toronto writer Téa Mutonji, is the inaugural book in Vivek Shraya’s VS. Books imprint at Arsenal Pulp Press. Told from the perspective of ... Read More »

April 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Coconut Dreams

By Derek Mascarenhas

April 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Collapsible

By Tim Conley

“Avant-garde writing in English Canada has never enjoyed much more than a token degree of prestige among the literati of this country,” write Gregory Betts and Christian Bök in the introduction to their recent critical ... Read More »

April 11, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Moccasin Square Gardens

By Richard Van Camp

The fact that Richard Van Camp doesn’t have his own national radio show, à la the late Stuart McLean, is a bit of a disappointment. Van Camp is Canada’s greatest oral storyteller, a brilliant weaver ... Read More »

April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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