Where were you when you first read <i>Ariel</i>? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In <i>My Ariel</i>, Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women. ...
Ruthnum won the Journey Prize in 2013His short fiction has also won the Peterson Prize for Writing, and the Malahat Review’s Novella Contest.His first crime novel to be published under the pseudonym Nathan Ripley will appear in 2018.Curry was inspired by Salman Rushdie's Imaginary HomelandsCultural authenticity and appropriation are currently hot-button issues ...
"Bock's language crackles with the energy of a Québécois folk song, impassioned and celebratory but also melancholy and cheekily ironic." —The New Yorker, on Atavisms A young, floundering author meets Robert «Baloney» Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing beyond his unwavering certainty. Over the course of one summer evening, Lacerte recounts his unrelenting quest for poetry, which has ta ...
From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, [i]This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the peopl ...
Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize[b]Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards[b]Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize"[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." – [b] Kirkus Reviews "This might be the best set-up of the spring." – ...
Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock's deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgangers, the Kraken, and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The poems in Broom Broom pervert the rational, safe parts of the world to extoll and absorb the sweep of human history. What I mean to say is, the evidence is always there.From where we stand, we confuse lampposts for ghosts. Brecken Hancock &ap ...
A body is found on the side of a highway. It goes missing, making its way, over the course of one early winter night, all around the northern town of Sudbury and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people, all damaged in some way, eventually bringing them together in a strange moment of violence. ...
Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex. Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness. In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined ...
In Sarah Sheard's celebrated novel Almost Japanese, a young girl's obsession with a famous Japanese musician blossoms into personal transformation. In spare, lyrical prose, Sheard documents Emma's discovery of her new next door neighbour, a dazzling Japanese symphony conductor. Things Japanese soon begin to transform Emma's world. Several years later, she must journey to Japan on a private pilgrimage to connect to the source ...
