Two pieces of criticism live this week — one on the stylistic, speculative side of the ledger, and one literary novel around activism.
First, I’ve reviewed Manitoba author Garry Thomas Morse’s Retcon for Prairie Fire Magazine: a real kaleidoscope of film references, unreliable narrators, academic conspiracies, outright farce, and what we’re stashing underneath all this metaphor, anyways.
Second, a review of Jeff Miller’s debut Temporary Palaces for Plenitude Magazine: a novel about the ripple effect of one tumultous Occupy-style housing protest (and a whole lot of people sleeping around with each other/crushing/yearning/cheating) on two working artists’ trajectory out of one summer in early-2000s Ottawa.
More literary criticism double-bills due up shortly!