White Lotus meets Shaun of the Dead in this absurdist take on the wellness retreat.
Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, inadvertently find themselves on an island wellness retreat impersonating ...
With an intimate, comic, and compassionate eye, the twelve stories in Simple Creatures consider what it means to live with less in the twenty-first century.
In this debut collection, Robert McGill explores ...
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.
In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek’s entire ...
A sardonic, feminist reimagining of the story of Mary Toft, infamous rabbit-birthing hoaxer.
Mary Toft was just another eighteenth-century woman living in poverty, misery, and frequent pain. The kind of ...
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction
Living ...
A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head.
Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man’s attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to convert ...
Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue.
Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has converted ...
CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW
A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present.
"I am leaving for the winter – I have to ...
FEATURED ON LITHUB
CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW
Dickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson’s poems out of the shadows
When she died, Emily Dickinson ...
LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURE
THE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023
A novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love ...