Today’s Spring 2023 Fiction Preview features Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel, Big Shadow! Set in an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Big Shadow follows Judy, an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself—especially as the artist she wants to be. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed […]
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Next up in our Spring 2023 Preview series is Lauren Carter’s Places Like These, a psychologically complex and astute short story collection which plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness […]
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“What is a friend?” Aristotle writes, but “a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” This Valentine’s Day, we are celebrating the true love of friendship, turning to books which meditate on this oft-skipped over but endlessly interesting form of affection. In honour of our pals, our comrades, our book clubs, and our besties, we present […]
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This week’s Spring 2023 Season Preview spotlights Lent by award-winning writer Kate Cayley. In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread. Lent is built from this tension, exploring domestic […]
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