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Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023
‘Cat Person’ meets Station Eleven in this apocalyptic depiction of toxic masculinity.
An unnamed man is spending the evening with ...
Not Anywhere, Just Not
Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish–style novel.
The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about ...
Pervatory
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A novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love ...
To the Forest
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023
When the pandemic forces a family to return to the mother’s childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent ...
Mahabharata
A contemporary dramatic take on a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic that is foundational to Indian culture.
Why Not Theatre’s large-scale, once-in-a-generation retelling of Mahabharata brings together a ...
Love Language
In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language through a modern take love poems
The term “Love Language” can be read at least three ways: as an imperative, ...
Tumbling for Amateurs
A reimagining of an instructional text on tumbling supports poems about the amateurishness of being human.
Tumbling for Amateurs is a reimagining of James Tayloe Gwathmey’s 1910 book of the same name, ...
The King of Terrors
What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?
Written after a brain tumour diagnosis early in the pandemic, The King of Terrors is a meditation on living with illness and the forces required ...
There Is No Blue
Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the ...
Yara
From the author of Maidenhead, a reverse cautionary tale about a young woman exploring the boundaries of sex and belonging in the early 2000s
Distraught that her teenage daughter is in love with a woman ...