Issue #60

The Hottest Summer in Recorded History

The Hottest Summer in Recorded History, Elizabeth Bachinsky, 80 pgs, Nightwood Editions, nightwoodeditions.com, $18.95 This fifth collection of poems from […]

Surrealist Cookbook

Surrealist Cookbook, Neil Coombs (Ed.), 140 pgs, Dark Windows Press, darkwindows.co.uk, £9.99 Do you remember that cooking show The Surreal […]

How to Get a Girl Pregnant

How to Get a Girl Pregnant, Karleen Pendleton-Jiménez, 167 pgs, Tightrope Books, tightropebooks.com, $19.95 In the excellent 2011 anthology Persistencies: […]

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut, Paul Krassner, 389 pgs, Soft Skull Press, softskull.com, US $18.95 Paul Krassner is the […]

Whitetail Shooting Gallery

Whitetail Shooting Gallery, Annette Lapointe, 220pgs, Anvil Press, anvilpress.com, $20 The second novel from the Saskatchewan-raised, Giller Prize- longlisted writer […]

The Proxy Bride

The Proxy Bride, Terry Favro, 123 pgs, Quattro Books, quattrobooks.ca, $14.95 It’s the summer of ‘69. But in the world […]

The Lava In My Bones

The Lava In My Bones, Barry Webster, 384 pgs, Arsenal Pulp Press, arsenalpulp.com, $16.95 After several attempts to get into […]

Fight Song

Fight Song, Joshua Mohr, 250 pgs, Soft Skull Press, softskull.com, $15.95 We meet unhappy middle-aged suburbanite Bob Coffen as he […]

Art Under Harper

 Living under a Prime Minister who puts “ordinary people” and “artists” in different categories, Canadian artists never expected support from […]

Earthbound

Earthbound, Kenneth Radu, 162 pgs, DC Books, dcbooks.ca, $18.95 This collection of 17 short stories is tethered by ordinary characters […]

budge

budge, Tom Osborne, 243 pgs, Anvil Press, anvilpress.com, $20 Louella Debra Poule is a recovering drug addict who takes the […]