The Seaboard Review of Books: Monday Edition
May 25, 2026
In this issue:
Beneficiary by JoAnn McCaig (Fiction)
Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork (Fiction)
A Vacation for Victory by Kelsey M. Lonie (Non-Fiction)
Social Perspectives on Death and Dying, (Fourth Edition) by Jeanette A. Auger and Kerstin Roger (Non-Fiction)
Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple (Non-Fiction)
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Fiction
Beneficiary by JoAnn McCaig
JoAnn McCaig’s novel Beneficiary, explores the world of privilege from the point of view of Seren, who spends a lifetime coming to terms with the lifestyle to which she is beneficiary. In the end, she is coming to terms with life in all its stereotypes, expectations, and paradoxes. The author’s use of time tags makes it easy to follow the threads of pas…
Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork
Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork is a book of commas, twenty-three of them on the first page alone, a book of sentences that twist and pivot about these tiny sandbars, thoughts that meander and return. Lisa Robertson’s numerous poetry publications are characterized by their challenging syntax and stylistic experimentation;
Did you read our inaugural “Saturday Short” story by Sarah Mintz?
Riot at Legion No. 9
Since its founding in 1956, Legion No. 9 has run Chase the Ace on Friday nights, meat draws on Saturday nights, darts on Sundays, bridge on Mondays, crib on Tuesdays, “fun pool” on Wednesdays, and pool league on Thursdays. Chase the Ace Friday is also Steak Night Friday. The big night. Sold out. Everyone who wants to Chase the Ace buys a ticket, then wa…
Non-Fiction
A Vacation for Victory by Kelsey M. Lonie
Maybe it’s just me, but I find that nonfiction books have the most resonance when you can sense the author’s passion for the topic. Sometimes the reason for that passion might be hidden, and sometimes it’s overt. When it comes to A Vacation for Victory: An Illustrated History of the Women’s Land Army in Canada
Social Perspectives on Death and Dying, (Fourth Edition) by Jeanette A. Auger and Kerstin Roger
Many of us aren’t comfortable talking about death and dying. It’s a subject we’d rather not think about, much less discuss. But as Social Perspectives on Death and Dying (Fourth Edition) notes, discussions about these topics can be important, and may even reduce our discomfort.
Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes," the composer Gustav Mahler once wrote. "It is the preservation of fire." Molly Crabapple opens Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund with that epigraph, and it sets the table with quiet precision. Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labour Bund, a socialist movement long pushed to th…
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