Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022. Featuring:Madhur Anand ¿ Sharon Bala ¿ Gary Barwin ¿ Billy-Ray Belcourt ¿ Xaiver Michael Campbell ¿ Corinna Chong ¿ Beth Downey ¿ Allison Graves ¿ Joel Thomas Hynes ¿ Elise Levine ¿ Sourayan Mookerjea ¿ Lue Palmer ¿ Michelle Porter ¿ Sara Power ¿ Ryan Turner ¿ Ian Williams
Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award ¿ Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction ¿ Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction ¿One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" ¿ Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 ¿ A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023 ¿ A Tyee Best Book of 2023"A writer to watch."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details-a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall-and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.
Selected by editor Marcello Di Cintio, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2022. Featuring:Lyndsie Bourgon ¿ Nicole Boyce ¿ Robert Colman ¿ Daniel Allen Cox ¿ Acadia Currah ¿ Sadiqa de Meijer ¿ Gabrielle Drolet ¿ Hamed Esmaeilion ¿ Kate Gies ¿ David Huebert ¿ Jenny Hwang ¿ Fiona Tinwei Lam ¿ Kyo Maclear ¿ Sandy Pool
"The best collected short fiction of Mark Anthony Jarman published over the last four decades."--
"A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was murdered. A stranger in a Fort-Detroit neighborhood coping with the ongoing effects of racial and economic injustice, she finds herself surrounded by poverty, pollution, violence--as well as the resilience of the residents, in whose stubborn generosity and carefully tended gardens she finds hope. When a strange intuition sends her into the woods of Parc Rouge, where the city's orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can't imagine the strength she will find. Set in an alternate history in which the French never surrendered the city of Detroit, where children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves, where rivers poison and heal and young and old alike protect with their lives the people and places they love, Catherine Leroux's The Future is a richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future."--
"The follow-up to Guriel's NYT New & Noteworthy Forgotten Work is a mashup of Moby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Byron, cyberpunk, Swamp Thing, Teen Wolf ... and more. It's 2070. Newfoundland has vanished, Tokyo is a new Venice, and many people have retreated to "bonsai housing": hives that compress matter in a world that's losing ground to rising tides. Enter Kaye, an English literature student searching for the reclusive author of a YA classic--a beloved novel about teenage werewolves sailing to a fabled sea monster's nest. Kaye's quest will intersect with obsessive fan subcultures, corporate conspiracies, flying gondolas, an anthropomorphic stove, and the molecular limits of reality itself. Set in the same world as Jason Guriel's critically acclaimed verse novel Forgotten Work, which the New York Times called "unlikely, audacious, and ingenious," and written in virtuosic rhyming couplets, The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles cuts between Kaye's quest, chapters from the YA novel, and guerilla works of fanfic in a genetically modified monsterpiece: a visionary verse novel destined to draw its own cult-following."--
Winner of the 2024 Fred Kerner Book Award • Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize • A Globe and Mail Best Spring Book • One of Lambda Literary Review's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of June 2023 • A Southern Review Book to Celebrate in June 2023 • A 49th Shelf Best Book of 2023A queer coming-of-age—and coming-to-terms—follows the after-effects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home.When a sister’s casual act of betrayal awakens their father’s demons—ones spawned by his time in Vietnamese POW camps—the effects of the ensuing violence against her brother ripple out over the course of forty years, from Lubbock, to San Francisco, to Fort Lauderdale. Swept up in this arc, the members of this family and their loved ones tell their tales. A queer coming-of-age, and coming-to-terms, and a poignant exploration of all the ways we search for home, Dreaming Home is the unforgettable story of the fragmenting of an American family.
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming.Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda’s transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers. With a cast of characters including forgotten sci-fi novelists, alcoholic poets, vegetarian publishers, Nobel Prize frontrunners, and the bartenders who kept them all lubricated while angling for the throne themselves, Michael Hingston details the friendships, feuds, and fantasies that fueled the creation of one of the oddest and most enduring micronations ever dreamt into being. Part literary history, part travelogue, part quest narrative, this cautionary tale about what happens when bibliomania escapes the shelves and stacks is as charming as it is peculiar—and blurs the line between reality and fantasy so thoroughly that it may never be entirely restored.
This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right and wrong, until he¿s assigned the murder of Polo, a prominent human rights activist¿and his friend. When his conscience gives him pause and his patrón catches on, a remote Mayan community offers the Cobra a potential refuge, but the people there are up against predatory mining companies. With danger encroaching, the Cobra is forced to confront his violent past and make a decision about what he¿s willing to risk in the future, and who it will be for.Following the Cobra, Polo, a faction of drug-dealing oligarchs, and Jacobo, a child caught in the crosshairs, Rey Rosa maps an extensive web of corruption upheld by decades of political oppression. A scathing indictment of exploitation in all its forms, The Country of Toó is a gripping account of what it means to consider societal change under the constant threat of violence.
A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.In the summer of 1977, standing on a roadside somewhere between Dachau and Munich, twenty-two-year-old Mike Barnes experienced the dawning of the psychic break he’d been anticipating almost all his life. “Times over the years when I have tried to describe what followed,” he writes of that moment, “it has always come out wrong.” In this finely wrought, deeply intelligent memoir of madness, its antecedents and its aftermath, Barnes reconstructs instead what led him to that moment and offers with his characteristic generosity and candor the captivating account of a mind restlessly aware of itself.
A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoonand gaining new appreciationamidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and consigned to scrolling screens, On Browsings essays chronicle what weve lost through online shopping, streaming, and the relentless digitization of culture. The latest in the Field Notes series, On Browsing is an elegy for physical media, a polemic in defenseof perusing the world in person, and a love letter to the dying practice of scanning bookshelves, combing CD bins, and losing yourself in the stacks.
A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagineand reveals the magic in the everyday.Ive always felt that the term fairy tale doesnt quite capture the essence of these stories, writes Emily Urquhart. I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories. In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter stormor the onset of a loved ones dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.
World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. The dead sleep peacefully—until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest works to keep them at rest, the count’s dying wife begs to be buried near the railway. But when her last wish is granted, the priest finds that the sound of the train leaves the countess far from at peace.
Selected by editor Mark Anthony Jarman, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2021. A collection that takes us into a firey near-future and a notorious feminist's personal past, from a near-drowning to a fake breakdown, through mothers who fail us to crummy jobs, to thieves, to grief, to revenge with a bottle of tabasco sauce. With work by established practitioners alongside that of lesser-known writers, this year's Best Canadian Stories shows how the short form can evoke the experience of a person on the brink. Including 2023 Metcalf-Rooke Award winner Caroline Adderson, and featuring, in tribute, two stories by the late Steven Heighton, this year's collection draws together beloved Canadian practitioners of the form and thrilling new voices to continue not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. Featuring works by:Caroline Adderson * David Bezmozgis * Jowita Bydlowska * Kate Cayley * Tamas Dobozy * Omar El Akkad * Christine Estima * Naomi Fontaine * Sara Freeman * Steven Heighton * Philip Huynh * David Huebert * Alexandra Mae Jones * Carmelinda Scian
Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021. âOur current, tumultuous ageâ? writes editor Mireille Silcoff, âis an important time for essayists, because in moments of great change, itâ¿s good to have chroniclers with the presence of mind to step back and assess.â? Silcoffâ¿s selections for Best Canadian Essays 2023 do just that. In examinations of identityâ¿personal, familial, racial, and culturalâ¿and investigations of the far-reaching shockwaves of war; in mediations on illness and health, belonging and alienation, parents and children; in unexpected arguments about novel-writing, Donald Trump, and the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, the essays gathered here chart all kinds of boundaries, comprising, as Silcoff terms it, âa small bid for understanding that a border, a line drawn, need not be only the beginning or the end of something. That a frontier can be a placeâ¿indeed is the best placeâ¿for a conversation between sides to begin.â?Featuring works by:Jamaluddin Aram ⢠Sharon Butala ⢠Kunal Chaudhary ⢠Christopher Cheung ⢠Emma Gilchrist ⢠Michelle Good ⢠Paul Howe ⢠Jane Hu ⢠Heather Jessup ⢠Chafic LaRochelle ⢠Stephen Marche ⢠Kathy Page ⢠Tom Rachman ⢠M.E. Rogan ⢠Allan Stratton ⢠Sarmishta Subramanian
Selected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2021. âMy goal,â? writes guest editor John Barton of his long career as a literary magazine editor, âwas always to be jostled awake, and I soon realized that I was being jostled awake for twoâ¿myself and the reader â¿ I came to understand that my job description included an obligation to expose readers to wide varieties of poetry, to challenge their assumptions while expanding their taste.â? In selecting this yearâ¿s edition of Best Canadian Poetry, Barton brings the same catholic spirit to his survey of Canadian poems published by magazines and journals in 2021. From new work by Canadian favourites to exciting new talents, this yearâ¿s anthology offers fifty poems to challenge and enlarge your sense of the power and possibility of Canadian poetry. Featuring:Leslie Joy Ahenda ⢠Billy-Ray Belcourt ⢠Bertrand Bickersteth ⢠Tawahum Bige ⢠Stephanie Bolster ⢠Susan Braley ⢠Moni Brar ⢠Jake Byrne ⢠Helen Cho ⢠Conyer Clayton ⢠Lucas Crawford ⢠Sophie Crocker ⢠Michael Dunwoody ⢠Evelyna Ekoko-Kay ⢠Tyler Engström ⢠Triny Finlay ⢠Elee Kraljii Gardiner ⢠Lise Gaston ⢠Susan Gillis ⢠Beth Goobie ⢠Patrick Grace ⢠Laurie D. Graham ⢠River Halen ⢠Eva H.D. ⢠Louise Bernice Halfeâ¿Skydancer ⢠Sarah Hilton ⢠Karl Jirgens ⢠MobólúwajÃdìde D. Joseph ⢠Penn Kemp ⢠Jeremy Loveday ⢠Randy Lundy ⢠Helen Han Wei Luo ⢠Colin Morton ⢠Jordan Mounteer ⢠Samantha Nock ⢠Kathryn Nogue ⢠Michelle Porter ⢠Rebekah Rempel ⢠Armand Garnet Ruffo ⢠Richard Sanger ⢠Nedda Sarshar ⢠K.R. Segriff ⢠Christina Shah ⢠Sandy Shreve ⢠Adrian Southin ⢠J.J. Steinfeld ⢠Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang ⢠Eric Wang ⢠Tom Wayman ⢠Jan Zwicky
An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisisher husband's and her own.Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all-consuming consolations of philosophy, and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children, the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesnt notice that herhouse and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest. Shecan barely find time for her writing career, and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take off.Our heroines only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keith's hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewisein the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the pages of Vitas journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vita's passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves.
The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls.When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history. It was a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called McCullaghs biography one of the great unwritten books in Canadian historyuntil now.In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of McCullaghs inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era.
As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warners voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. Over the past fifteen years, by harboring and honoring such fraught tensions. In Octopus we have him at his best.
The annual collection of the best Canadian short fiction, selected by an accomplished and influential guest editor.
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