The Seaboard Review of Books, October 20, 2025
Volume 2, Issue 45 of The Seaboard Review of Books, October 1, 2025
In this issue:
Foucault and Picasso in Newfoundland: Lisa Moore’s This Is How We Love (Fiction)
Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee (Fiction)
The Secret Lives of Public Servants by Anne Lévesque (Fiction)
Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi (Non-Fiction)
Lust, love, and pregnancy: Ship Moms by Jen Winsor (Non-Fiction)
The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner (Poetry)
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Fiction
Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee
In Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, Lynn Hutchinson Lee packs a lot into a small space. Told as a series of short, lyrical chapters, this dark fantasy novella explores life as a Romany woman in Canada. The story is told in an unconventional style, with one hundred very short chapters. This creates a mosaic effect, leaving gaps to be filled in by the re…
The Secret Lives of Public Servants by Anne Lévesque
To us they’re just the faceless paper pushers, desk jockeys, and number crunchers lurking behind curtains of red tape in grey government offices while living lives of quiet desperation. But to Cape Breton novelist Anne Lévesque, they are multi-faceted humans just like us and worthy of closer examination. In her complex and witty second novel,
Non-Fiction
Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
There are numerous books in almost any genre that can easily qualify for praiseful remembrance, and as this journal spotlights occasional mentions of such, particularly if we include all literary writing in English. I know of no-one, - writers, editors or readers – who limit themselves to the practitioners of the ‘true north strong and free’. Everybody …
Lust, Love, and Pregnancy: Ship Moms by Jen Winsor
Jen Winsor, the author of Ship Moms, tells the story of how, while working as an entertainment director aboard a luxury cruise liner, she got pregnant by a fellow crew member. The father, who was considerably younger than her, was already married with children back in Brazil, and it quickly became apparent that she was on her own with this pregnancy.
Poetry
The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner
One would think that a book of poetry and prose rooted in the magic of bees would be better suited to the early summer days alive with the sound of purposeful buzzing and the sight of “ballerina spores”. But as I read The Pollination Field — Kim Fahner’s latest collection — this month, I realized that it was well-placed to bridge the warmth and enchantm…
Michael Greenstein Reviews
Foucault and Picasso in Newfoundland: Lisa Moore's This Is How We Love
Jules, the artistic protagonist of Lisa Moore’s latest novel, This Is How We Love, is married to Joe, who teaches philosophy and reads Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. Foucault zeroes in on a prison’s panopticon or central observatory where guards exercise their power or authority over inmates. Although Moore’s novel doesn’t contain a panopticon…
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