"Simple Creatures" affords McGill countless opportunities to render the anatomy of melancholy with a level of fidelity not normally seen within the confines of the short story; the result of these ...

In “Simple Creatures,” Robert McGill’s debut short story collection (Coach House Books), lives bogged down by complexity and distraction are subjected to various forms of simplification. Sometimes ...

Following the announcement of Simple Creatures' forthcoming Everything Opposite EP – due out in October – Alex Gaskarth has explained the subject matter of the duo's new release. Comparing it against ...

Robert McGill, a professor of English in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his debut short story ...