Of all President Trump’s rather peculiar hyper-fixations — rigged elections, left-wing fake news and Rosie O’Donnell — there is one that particularly stands out, and his name is Hannibal Lecter. 

“I’m afraid of men because it was men who taught me fear,” Vivek Shraya writes as the opening line of her memoir, I’m Afraid of Men (2018/Penguin Canada).

Check out these 11 contemporary retellings of classic books — you’ll definitely want to swap out the assigned reading in English class.

In the fifth installment of Charles Cutters’ Mystery series that revolves around the Michigan attorney, Burr Lafayette, the flawed legal genius is undoubtedly a star in the courtroom, but his glow has started to diminish in light of his self-destructive habits.

"Perhaps this is what is so successful about Those Fantastic Lives: the collection goes beyond familiar narratives of the supernatural by asking why we are afraid of monsters and ghosts, and the things we cannot explain..." Costa B. Pappas reviews Bradley Sides's debut collection.

Sophie Kazan Makhlouf’s literary debut challenges conventional views of Emirati art, offering a multi-layered history that shatters stereotypes of luxury and embraces cultural complexity.

“Kalamujic takes readers on a journey of introspection, formulating an awareness for the realities of life, both pleasant and painful,” Costa B Pappas on Lejla Kalamujic’s novel, Call Me Esteban.

Can you imagine what Sex and the City would be without Manolo Blahniks, Carrie’s signature necklace, or that iconic tutu in the theme song? And try to imagine The Devil Wears Prada without, well, Prada? The creative force behind these pop-culture hits is just as memorable as her onscreen work.

"Despite how powerfully the objects of our lives might obsess us or orient our attention, they are but one aspect of a larger lived experienced." Costa B. Pappas on Clare Sestanovich's debut collection, Objects of Desire, out soon from Knopf.

As we reach the end of June, the deeply political origins of Pride Month deservedly define our annual June commemoration.

Queer underground movements have always sought to explore alternative forms of living and expression, as Canadian author Gabriel Cholette chronicles in his memoir.