Jeffrey Round is an award-winning Toronto author, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker. His books include the seven-volume Lambda-winning Dan Sharp…

Akiyuki Nosaka / Wikipedia Akiyuki Nosaka’s (1930–2015) semi-autobiographical short story “Hotaru No Haka” (Grave of the Fireflies) is a…

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Carlie Hoffman  I have never been able to hear music in my voice so much as I have in reading the lyrical wonder of One More World…

The title of Xiaolu Guo’s new novel, Call Me Ishmaelle (Chatto & Windus, 2025), instantly reminds us of the famous opening of…