Frances and I met at a café on Van Horne to gab for a couple of hours. We had a blast and this was the result. BUILDING TRACTION Frances Grace Fyfe When I went to print out these interview questions at Zoubris photocopy in the Mile End, one of the owners recognized Leila Marshy’s name and warned me “she’s trouble.” I brought the questions with me to Caffe della Pace, on the corner of Van Horne and Hutchison, the site of some of the writer/publisher’s previous rabble-rousing.

18 November 2025 by Ian Thomas Shaw Read here and below. Before picking up a copy of Razing Palestine, it is worth considering what this anthology is—and what it is not. It is not a collection of literary short stories, nor a volume of meticulously footnoted analysis; readers seeking either of those will find them amply elsewhere. Instead, the book gathers first-hand testimonies from Canadians who have confronted what many consider the defining moral dilemma of our era: the d

June 2025, by Manahil Bandukwala, in Quill & Quire , Leila Marshy’s collection of stories, My Thievery of the People, is full of...

The Philistine still gets a steady trickle of love and attention, which is astonishing to me. How lucky am I. This recent one is an IG...

Received this wonderful review today from the Literary Review of Canada . It's glowing and affirming and stunning, and left me a little...

Vancouver's Scout Magazine included this lovely review in their Spring Book Club. Thanks to Thalia Stopa for this! Probably my favourite...

The talented Léa Murat-Ingles interviewed me for the Montreal Review of Books , which came out earlier this month, March 2025. Ever ...

How amazing to find this recent review on Instagram, especially now as Gaza lies under the rubble of frenzied revenge. It's a real gift...

I sent my novel to the reviewer at Seven Circumstances a couple of years ago. She has reviewed several LLP books and I like her honest...

This review is among the best I've ever received for The Philistine. It's kind of left me breathless. How honoured I feel to have had...