Book Review
The Blue Book of Nebo
by Elaine Chiew
Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Manon Steffan Ros’s "The Blue Book of Nebo" is an elegant, elegiac novel that tempers the enormity of nuclear Armageddon with personal, intimate relationships. Rowenna and her...
Book Review
People Want to Live
by Elaine Chiew
Set in Karachi, the fourteen short stories of Farah Ali’s stunning and soulful "People Want to Live" are tales of bumpy lives steeped in poverty, bleakness, violence, and despair. The devastations within interior lives are highlighted...
Book Review
In the Event of Contact
by Elaine Chiew
Distance, psychological and physical, runs through Ethel Rohan’s short story collection In The Event of Contact. Here, contact, or the lack thereof, signals loss, emptiness, and need. Meanwhile, intimacy is a double-edged sword. In...
Book Review
Stoop City
by Elaine Chiew
Concentrated most in a pocket of downtown Toronto, Kristyn Dunnion’s short story collection "Stoop City" is poetic in addressing disaffected urbanites: vagabonds, the poor, strung-out people, and those marginalized by society because...
Wow, you made it all the way to the end! We don't have anything else to show you here, but maybe there is new content available on the first page. Or, if you've already looked at everything in this section, head on over to our homepage for a wider selection of content.