by Euan | Dec 18, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
John Holten’s Oslo, Norway is a lot of things. At first glance the book, Holten’s second to be published by Broken Dimanche Press (the publisher he co-founded in Berlin), appears much like any other example of literary fiction, introducing the reader to a roster of...
by Christine | Oct 9, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
I have a confession to make. (Another one.) I am reviewing a work of flash fiction, I Am Currently Working on a Novel, by Rolli, who lives in Saskatchewan. And I don’t really know what flash fiction is. Like, I just don’t get it. It’s short, and...
by Spenser | Sep 22, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
It’s a popular notion in the literary community to say that people don’t read enough literature in translation, especially poetry. It’s one of those opinions that most people nod along with, probably because they don’t read enough translated poetry but ‘have...
by Christine | Sep 6, 2015 | Reviews
The novel The Room by Andreas Maier got me thinking about the relationship of authors to readers, specifically about the amount of effort that the audience is expected to make when engaging with a piece of art. Samuel Butler was fairly unequivocal on this matter: “I...
by Christine | Aug 24, 2015 | Reviews
Crista Ermiya’s debut short story collection presents neat and well-observed fictions that evoke more than a flicker of the uncanny, conjuring a world in which all stories are true, somewhere. Whether in the curious tale of a boy who falls in love when a mysterious...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
I believe that lying is one of the noblest of human endeavours. I won’t justify this position (at least not here) but will state that Family Heirlooms, a 1990 novella by Brazilian author Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares, translated last year by Daniel Hahn and published by...
