Aritha Van Herk

CS began writing as a child, and her parents were excited when she got herself published in her highschool newspaper. At this stage she used to say she would one day publish a novel, but...

A younger Canadian novelist, Aritha Van Herk , called Good Bones and its predecessor Murder in the Darkaphoristic contemporary parables, which contain some of Atwood's most provocative and intellectually adroit writing.

Novelist and critic Aritha Van Herk found this volume less playful than its predecessors,a dry and dire collection . . . . Atwood as Cassandra, wailing her prophecy in the ear of a deaf...

Aritha Van Herk wrote that Atwood sets up a completely plausible universe, as seamless as a stocking, and shockingly believable.

After it won the O. Henry Prize (in the first year in which Canadians were eligible for this award) Munro described the genesis of the title story in an actual occurrence where a woman and...