Sitting down to write this article, I find myself not only at the end of a year but also at the end of a long project (or at least, at the end of a first draft).

With blunt grace, Denis Johnson navigates the line between realism and the American frontier myth in his perfect novella Train Dreams. In a slim 116 pages, Johnson communicates one man’s life…

The morning Nadine’s feathers sprouted, a light snow fell. She was standing outside, watching Meg board the school bus, noticing how the little girl’s hair, frizzy like her own, glistened with snow, m...

“The best of Men have… a kind of spiritual yeast in their frames which creates the ferment of existence — by which a Man is propell’d to act and strive and buffet with Circumstance.R…

Mostly WD-40 and duct tape

Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Maggie Smith about finding possibility in intermediate states and the freedom of having your life implode.

An excerpt from Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays (out April 22 from Wilfrid Laurier University Press), Chapter 5: 'On Catching and Being Caught.' 'I knew enough stories of violence to know that if I...