I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind

In the pantheon of human interactions, there are few questions as fraught with peril and treachery as “Do you love me?” Not simply because of the emotional weight this question – and the various possible ... Read More »

March 26, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Ridgerunner

By Gil Adamson

Perhaps more than any other genre, the western seems a relic of the past, to the point where a new literary example – say, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers – is almost automatically viewed as ... Read More »

March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Like Rum-Drunk Angels

By Tyler Enfield

March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Subtweet

By Vivek Shraya

Vivek Shraya has become one of Canada’s most well-known chameleons of the arts and culture. Shraya has received praise in different artistic realms, including five separate nominations for Lambda Literary Awards and a nomination for ... Read More »

March 5, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Coming Up for Air

By Sarah Leipciger

No spoilers here: the first line of Sarah Leipciger’s Coming Up for Air is “This is how I drowned.” The narrator who delivers it is inspired by L’Inconnue de la Seine (the unknown woman of ... Read More »

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

How a Woman Becomes a Lake

By Marjorie Celona

Marjorie Celona’s taut, melancholy sophomore novel opens on New Year’s Day in a frigid corner of Washington State. Officer Lewis Côté finds Vera Gusev’s car abandoned in a parking lot near a frozen lake, “doors ... Read More »

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Eyelid

By S.D. Chrostowska

“Sleeping one’s fill, as physical regeneration and cognitive housekeeping, is a luxury that even the rich, let alone those following suit, cannot afford,” writes S.D. Chrostowska in her 2015 hybrid of philosophy, criticism, and aphorism, ... Read More »

February 20, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Evie of the Deepthorn

By André Babyn

The question at the heart of Toronto writer André Babyn’s debut novel seems fairly straightforward: just what is Evie of the Deepthorn? The answer, however, is not as simple as it might appear. The novel’s ... Read More »

February 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters

By Anita Kushwaha

Ottawa-based author Anita Kushwaha’s second novel can’t help but be compared to Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter, another story about the relationship between a mother and her adopted Indian daughter and the fears and hopes ... Read More »

February 6, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Recipe for a Perfect Wife

By Karma Brown

Alice Hale is desperate to escape her life, but she never imagined freedom would mean leaving New York City for a dilapidated old house in the bedroom town of Greenville. She only agrees to her ... Read More »

January 23, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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