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Told in alternating chapters that go back and forth between the 1990s and the present,...
The collected poetry, covering a 50-year span from 1970 to 2020, of one of Canada's...
Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War...
Shakespeare wrote at a unique historical turning point: the world was understood through poetry --...
Inspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl's 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, this...
Almost daily scientists are sounding dire warnings about the effects of climate change. Our young...
In Kissing a Tree Surgeon, worlds traverse the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in New Jersey; Southern women get kidnapped by North Koreans; a Dutch girl solicits money on OKCupid; a young woman meets Golda Meir on an Upper East Side bus in New York City, and other deliriously satirical moments occur. Here are more highlights: a character believes he's the biological son of Frank Sinatra; Zionist-Hasidic lesbians protest anti-Semitism at a women's Catholic college; a stalking moviegoer takes her dead grandmother to a Bertolucci film; a daughter meets her father's mistress at his grave; an employee is banned from calling her boss...
"My father had an unorthodox way of eating apples. He'd crunch with excessive force, so you could hear every piece of apple dispensed in his mouth. His chomping disrupted any sense of decorum at our table, for he believed more in anarchism and nonconformity than in providing us with good... "
