The Devil You Do Know
In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the devil appears in the hour of need. When the disgruntled 16th-century scholar summons Mephistopheles, an agent of...
Shaped by Time
An interview with T. Liem, author of Slows: Twice
In 1982, Singapore reinvented New Year’s Eve. As the clock crept forward around the rest of the world, slowly approaching midnight in a...
Haunted Items
The genre of ekphrasis, famously exemplified by John Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” considers how in looking at art, its history, materials, and makers, we may further understand our own humanity……
Immortality Projects
An interview with Mitchell Consky, author of Home Safe
Home Safe, Consky’s debut memoir, is a profoundly moving collection of essays that explores his father’s end-of-life care experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Avian Ideas of Utopia
Michael DeForge’s hilarious and thought provoking graphic novel, Birds of Maine, offers a glimpse of what happens when birds occupy a utopian civilization on the moon’s surface.…
From the Ashes
In her stunning debut novel, Such Big Dreams, Patel transports readers to the heart of Mumbai, drawing from her own personal history and the socioeconomic, class, and cultural struggles of the Behrampada fire victims. The result is a unique …
Heart It Stops
How you knew to hop the fence/ the monotony/ the neighbourhood/ learned to drive drunk …
Family Lives On
Three-time nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Lisa Moore is no stranger to the impassioned, local-specific character study. In Moore’s examination of love and family, This Is How We Love becomes not just …
The Age of Unfamiliarity
Kim Fu’s short fiction collection, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, is a thoughtful, lively embrace of speculative fiction and magic realism in which modern themes of identity, love, desire, and technological consequence are stretched and scrutinized to alarming …