If you ask Anita Lahey, she’ll say there seems to be “something in the air” in the literary community. There is, she thinks, “an openness to playing with the boundaries within which we normally work.” And indeed, Lahey’s work of late has been particularly interested in playing
In the Upper Country Kai Thomas Viking Canada, Jan. Set in Ontario at the terminus of the Underground Railroad, Thomas’s debut novel begins with the shooting of a slave hunter by an old woman. Young journalist Lesinda is summoned to encourage her to escape before the authorities arrive, but the old woman refuses, as she
Poetry should leave the reader uncomfortable and challenged so to expand their worldview to include the different experiences of others, guest editor John Barton argues in his introduction.