Reviews

Like Rum-Drunk Angels

Perhaps more than any other genre, the western seems a relic of the past, to the point where a new literary example – say, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers – is almost automatically viewed as ... Read More »

March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Out of My Mind: A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back

By Shalom Camenietzki

“Insight” is a word that gets thrown around a lot in psychiatric circles: a patient who has it is someone who understands that they are ill, whereas lack of insight is considered to be a ... Read More »

March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ The Dyzgraphxst

By Canisia Lubrin

Canisia Lubrin’s second full-length collection is an ambitious project, combining a lyric attention to the representation of the self with an epic scope and focus on the fate of a community, in this case on ... Read More »

March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Subtweet

By Vivek Shraya

Vivek Shraya has become one of Canada’s most well-known chameleons of the arts and culture. Shraya has received praise in different artistic realms, including five separate nominations for Lambda Literary Awards and a nomination for ... Read More »

March 5, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Coming Up for Air

By Sarah Leipciger

No spoilers here: the first line of Sarah Leipciger’s Coming Up for Air is “This is how I drowned.” The narrator who delivers it is inspired by L’Inconnue de la Seine (the unknown woman of ... Read More »

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

How a Woman Becomes a Lake

By Marjorie Celona

Marjorie Celona’s taut, melancholy sophomore novel opens on New Year’s Day in a frigid corner of Washington State. Officer Lewis Côté finds Vera Gusev’s car abandoned in a parking lot near a frozen lake, “doors ... Read More »

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Eyelid

By S.D. Chrostowska

“Sleeping one’s fill, as physical regeneration and cognitive housekeeping, is a luxury that even the rich, let alone those following suit, cannot afford,” writes S.D. Chrostowska in her 2015 hybrid of philosophy, criticism, and aphorism, ... Read More »

February 20, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Not One of These Poems Is About You

By Teva Harrison

We all know we are going to die, but most of us don’t know when. After being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37, Teva Harrison knew the end was coming much ... Read More »

February 13, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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