It’s easy to read the two main characters of Vivek Shraya’s The Subtweet as archetypes. On one hand, we have Neela, the capital-A artist who cares more about authenticity than popularity. On the [...]
The Adventures of Isabel begins with a bleak scene. Broke, depressed and grown listless after being laid off from her job as a social worker, a queer protagonist and narrator is asked to [...]
Edmonton writer Dolly Dennis’s second novel, The Complex Arms, tracks the lives of an eccentric coterie of characters who comprise a tenuous community of renters in a four-storey walk-up in the [...]
Morgan Murray’s debut novel, Dirty Birds, hints at being loosely biographical from the start, when the rural Alberta born and raised Murray introduces us to Milton Ontario, a diffident small-town [...]
Poetry is not an expression of the party line,” according to Allen Ginsberg. “It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what [...]
