"An exquisite work: darkly gripping and sensuous, a Milgram experiment-esque horror meets Eyes Wide Shut."
—Daisy Lafarge

Hypnotic, disquieting, and surprising, Distortion is a modern gothic tale of seduction and survival.

*Lambda Literary Award Winner

In The Correspondence Artist, an unremarkable woman has been carrying on with an internationally recognized artist, largely via e-mail. To protect her paramour's identity, she creates a series of correspondent, alternative lovers in a self-destructing roman à clef.

"One of the finest and most sublime writers at work today."
—Claudia Dey

B is adrift after the publication of his debut novel, ill at ease creatively in the wake of its release, his thoughts consumed by podcasts and the desire to leave his desk. One evening, he pauses on a photograph of a queer Cree couple – Norm and Richard – who have carefully constructed a life together. Their abiding love compels B to reach out; to his surprise, the couple invite him into their home.

At the opening of an art exhibition, W finds himself the object of a conservative politician’s sudden interest. As Daniil demands ever greater control and secrecy over their tumultuous romance, W is cast into the orbit of B’s attention and fixation. Together, B and W form a tenuous bond that stands in stark contrast to Norm and Richard’s enduring companionship.

Idealism and Despair is a nuanced study of desire, intimacy, and the ways we view one another, proving yet again Belcourt to be an exceptional and singular talent.

An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal.

Recalling the works of Rachel Cusk and Kazuo Ishiguro, Landscapes is an evocative reinvention of the pastoral and the country house novel for our age of catastrophe, and announces the arrival of an extraordinarily gifted new writer.