Quill and Quire

By Eleanor Catton

The plot is conventionally provocative: in the aftermath of a high school sex scandal, a group of teenage girls become aware of their own power. However, in The Rehearsal, the first novel by Canadian-born, New ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith opens his new collection of stories with a cheeky definition of the imaginary titular object: “An instrument, in book form, used for viewing a disparate (but hopefully, not grotesquely so) collection of impossible ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Miguel Syjuco

In 2008, Montreal author Miguel Syjuco’s debut novel nabbed both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Award (the Pulitzer of the Philippines) – quite a coup for a first book. Given the noisy ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels