Lights dim, the overture stirs, and a plane descends–we find out why a Canadian queer left everything behind for the city of Berlin.

The character of Leopold Bloom, the wonderful depictions of Dublin—a novelist vows to do for St. John’s, Newfoundland, what Joyce's Ulysses did for Dublin. (Stephen’s barely bearable soliloquies notwithstanding.)

To read his latest novel, Cataract City, you’d think that Craig Davidson was a man’s man. He’s not, but like all guys—even the meek and intellectual—he’s fascinated by them, and maybe (like this writer) a little jealous.