The Seaboard Review of Books: Monday Edition
March 30, 2026
In this issue:
The End of Prim by Michelle Tocher (Fiction)
Opposite Sully’s Gym by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (Fiction)
Son of Nobody by Yann Martel (Fiction)
We Breed Lions by Rick Westhead (Non-Fiction)
The Taiwo Olukorede Korexcalibur Interview
Jiménez’s Search for the Eternal Word (Poetry)
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Fiction
The End of Prim by Michelle Tocher
In The End of Prim, Michelle Tocher examines the ways we reinvent our lives. Although this theme is by no means new, the treatment in this novella is refreshing. For although the character of Prim is on one level very typical—a woman in her sixties during a time of world crisis who sets out to change her response to the world—on all other levels, Prim s…
Opposite Sully’s Gym by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
I was one day shy of my 7th birthday when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, so I wasn’t aware of the significance of it at the time. The name James Earl Ray, his alleged killer was on the news of course because he was on the lam, and at one point, was actually living (under an alias) in a rooming house in Toronto just days after the fatal shootin…
Non-Fiction
We Breed Lions by Rick Westhead
We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture by Rick Westhead provides a disturbing portrait of hockey culture in Canada, while at the same time offering hope for the future.
Interview
The Taiwo Olukorede Korexcalibur Interview
I sat down with Taiwo Olukorede Korexcalibur, the New Brunswick-based creator of a limited series distributed last month on Bell Fibe, Groove, to discuss the monolithic diversity initiatives imposed on his arrival as a Nigerian immigrant that inspired the series.
Poetry
Jiménez’s Search for the Eternal Word
Juan Ramón Jiménez (December 23, 1881 - May 29, 1958) is among the most essential poets of the twentieth century and, indeed, of our century, too. His Eternidades, first published in 1918, remains as fresh and as relevant today as it was over a century ago. At first glance, the reader might assume that this book is comprised of one hundred and thirty-s…
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