The Seaboard Review of Books: Monday Edition
April 27, 2026
In this issue:
The Unnameable by Stephens Gerard Malone (Fiction)
Shoebox by Sean Bedell (Fiction)
Mobilizing Data for Justice (Non-Fiction)
On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan (Non-Fiction, Essays)
The Lightning Tree by Rebecca Hendry (Poetry, Chapbook)
We Match! Written by Chris Barton and illustrated by Sharon Glick (Children’s)
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Fiction
The Unnameable by Stephens Gerard Malone
Coming to terms with who you are is hard for any teenager, but coming to terms with who you are as a queer teenager in the 1960s, while living on a military base is harder.
Shoebox by Sean Bedell
Steve Lewis does nothing by half measures. A dedicated family man and devoted husband to Annie, Steve is also a paramedic who gives his all to every shift, to every call out, to every accident and medical emergency victim. He prides himself on his abilities as a first responder and the quality of care he provides. Indeed, his commitment to the job is su…
Non-Fiction
On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan
About 18 months ago, I got an email from someone I’d lost touch with almost 20 years prior, a friend I met in Goose Bay, Labrador. I was only there for a few months, but we had a great time raucously bonding over loud music, unguarded talks, and mud-soaked CRV rallies deep into the endlessly sprawling wilderness that loomed over town. Now we’ve become f…
Poetry
The Lightning Tree by Rebecca Hendry
“There are no rules in grief,” says Patti Smith, a good mantra to hold close when reading Rebecca Hendry’s The Lightning Tree. The book contains a beautifully woven sequence of lyric poems, circling the impossible burden of loss through spare, exquisite lines, and in doing so providing a kind of navigational map for the grieving heart. “Grief is a prima…
Children’s Books
We Match! Written by Chris Barton and illustrated by Sharon Glick
Young ’uns get taught to make things match. It’s tradition. For myself, the challenge took the form of a hand-me-down copy of Somebody Forgot!, by Gladys M. Horn. The smiling family in that 1954 story, apparently none of them very bright, each chose a colour to paint a part of their house. But, as the title suggests, they then forgot their respective ch…
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