Bookworm, no. 77

Ray Reid reviews “Best Canadian Stories 2025.” Leighton Schreyer on Jonathan N. Stea’s “Mind the Science.” Poetry by Natalie Rice. Inside the January/February issue.

Jan 07, 2025

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Storytime

Best Canadian Stories 2025
Selected by Steven W. Beattie
Biblioasis
264 pages, softcover and ebook

In a “distracted, attention-deficit age,” who has time for prose? In Best Canadian Stories 2025, the editor Steven W. Beattie argues that short stories represent the ideal form of contemporary storytelling, because they “cannot be consumed passively.”…

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