In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer
What I wasn’t expecting about In the Field was just how much I love it. It is a remarkable book: thoughtful, nuanced, beautifully written, and thoroughly researched.
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ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #4
With Reviews of books by Rebecca Salazar, Jake Byrne, and Margo LaPierre.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #54
Featuring Nicholas Ruddock, M.S. Berry, Lucy Black, and Melanie Schnell
As the Earth Dreams | The Terese Mason Pierre interview
Terese Mason Pierre is the editor of As The Earth Dreams (House of Anansi Press), a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.
Planet Earth by Nicholas Ruddock
Planet Earth is a wide-ranging collection of stories. Clocking in at 184 pages in total, this is small but mighty: there are pieces of flash fiction here, longer stories, ones that break your heart and ones that chill you to the bone.
The Atoner of Alberni by Ed Cepka
The first utterance by Larry, the raucous novel’s restless narrator, indicates just how far things did progress from the book’s early days as a sturdy pioneer saga: “I’m grateful for this cell and its vinyl padded walls and floor that they laughably justify so that I don’t harm myself.”
Razing Palestine edited by Leila Marshy
As the world nervously watches the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas (one where the killing of Palestinians is still happening, albeit at a much slower rate), we have to begin examining how “never again” became hollowed out and meaningless.
The Seaside Café Metropolis by Antanas Sileika
There’s a certain wry tone in Soviet comic fiction — sly, humorous, incredibly bleak, resigned, and also still managing to delight in the absolute absurdity of it all. It’s very specific, and if you’ve read any Soviet writers, you’ll know what I mean.
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #53: Now I Shall Leave You to Your Fate Takeover Edition!
Hear from the contributors of Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate about why they wrote their stories in the collection!
We the Raptors 30 Players, 30 Stories, 30 Years by Eric Smith and Andrew Bricker, with foreword by Kyle Lowry
Perhaps that warranted cynicism is why we can forget the joy of sports and its roots in the purest nostalgia – a clear, direct line from who you are today to an earlier self.
Pickled in Love by Gina N. Brown
Successfully balance(s) sweet romance vibes with the oftentimes humorous situations that mature people often face in the dating game.
Annapurna’s Bounty by Veena Gokhale
The stories themselves are […] uniformly fragrant with colourful details of cooking and food.
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
An adept technician and genius at the craft of spinning a story, Atwood, who turns 86 in November, breathes tremendous vitality into Book of Lives.
Pilgrimages by Matthew Rettino
The language and structure of the poems are controlled with clarity, precision, and word economy.
