Reading Time: 6 minutesKing in the Clouds, published by third-year theatre student Meadow L. Marie, is a captivating story about the love and tragedy between royal siblings that will charm fantasy lovers.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOttessa Moshfegh’s works usually expose and gently pull apart the same themes: feelings of deep, seemingly incurable loneliness, usually from a female perspective. Her works feature women in incredibly unique situations but somehow manage to make them accessible and universally applicable.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs in his past works of fiction, Midnight Sweatlodge (2012) and Legacy (2014), Rice uses a veil of storytelling to allow his readers to live through the difficulties, complications and celebrations of reserve life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fact that Radisson is only briefly mentioned in the footnotes of others’ textbooks proves, once again, that the devil really is in the details.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“It’s generative, it’s creative, and it’s been embellamative of the kinds of activism that QTBIPOC has been doing in this city, this province, and this country.”—Syrus Marcus Ware, one of the books’ editors.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Booker Prize winning author was a featured guest at the special event hosted by the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival. Charismatic and humorous, he led the audience through insightful dialogue spanning topics from religion and philosophy to language and authorship while promoting his new book.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe real intrigue of Missing Children, lies not in the whereabouts of the protagonist’s daughter, Shawn, who returns home unharmed, but in what caused her disappearance, and whether it’s related to the increasing number of children going missing from Troutstream.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMOVE ASIDE STEPHENIE Meyers, there’s a new vampire novelist in town. Patricia McCarthy, an Ottawa-based writer, has penned her fifth novel in the Crimson vampire series. The romance-esque novel is about blood-sucking monsters living in the nation’s capital and it’s due out later this year. The Fulcrum recently sat down and spoke to the local …
Reading Time: 3 minutesLocal store removes controversial window display TRIVIUM, A STORE located on the ground floor of the Rideau Centre, decided to take down its Halloween display last Friday after it created a considerable amount of controversy amongst mall patrons. The display featured mannequins dressed as doctors and nurses—some holding weapons such as a chainsaw—in an attempt …
