Complex female characters? Check. Historical revolution? Check. Challenging themes of race and class? Check. Opera? Check! The World So Wide by Zilla Jones is a beefy read in more ways than one, spanning decades, countries, nationalities, lovers, and stages. It really has everything, but most importantly it has Felicity, the main character. Felicity Alexander, the …
It’s rare to read a story which manages to handle full lives like that, instead of focusing only on that which serves the primary story.
Seven Days in Halifax is another piece of that history, detailing a seven-day event in 1970 called Encounter on Urban Environment, which was a road show where experts (from away) came to Halifax and held a series of town halls to speak to citizens, industry, and government to get a sense of Halifax.
Through 2023 and into 2024, Himelfarb attends the tournaments, interviews the players, and traces the journeys to get to the highest level of the chess world.
This is a particularly raw collection of poetry, I felt, the blank verse tumbling across the page in a cry to be read and felt.
A ragtag group of humans live in a small colony, on the edge of the island. In one direction is the sea, rough and unpredictable.
In Crowd Source, Cecily Nicholson’s latest collection of poetry, she uses a flock of crows as her framing device, linking meditations on a wide variety of topics with the movement of crows.
I was very intrigued by Vessel, Dani Netherclift’s work on the drowning deaths of her father and brother.
Nothing at All, Olivia Tapiero’s collection of vignettes exploring loss, illness, desire, and pain was translated from French by Kit Schluter for this edition.
Trapped in a conservative, religious society, Frona has no one to ask if her desire for men is normal. If her lust is proper – and she’s convinced it will be the things that damns her.
If you feel like you missed out on a lot of good short fiction in the last twelve months, or want to take your first step into short fiction (join us! Short fiction is great!), then I highly recommend picking up Best Canadian Stories 2026, and diving in.
Sisters Marthe and Élisabeth find themselves on a ship to New France, after scandal embroiled Élisabeth in their village.
Gammel traces her way through Montgomery’s life, journals, and early works to determine the leads for how Anne of Green Gables was born, and how Montgomery related to Anne throughout her life.
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