“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own” (John 15:19) reads the epigraph of Brandon Taylor’s first short-story collection. Lionel, the central character of the…
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Many of the stories in Emma Cline’s provocatively titled short-story collection feature older men whose stars are fading, numbing themselves from the world’s increasing indifference to their influence with booze, pills…
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Truth be told, I was wary of a short-story collection by a poet, the two disciplines being as different from one another as photography and film-making. But colour me corrected:…
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To enter into a world created by Sarah Hall is to step into a landscape that is feral and alive. Nature — including human nature — is not always benign.
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My favourite story in Zadie Smith’s Grand Union takes the form of a worksheet teaching fourth-graders how to write. The technique of dialogue (one of Smith’s fortes) is illustrated with…