Paradise Lost

Playwright Erin Shields’s dramatic adaptation of Paradise Lost – commissioned by the Stratford Festival for a 2018 production in their Studio Theatre – explores with verve and a modern-day sensibility the themes found in Milton’s ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Such a Lonely, Lovely Road

By Kagiso Lesego Molope

In her third novel for adults (and the follow-up to this year’s novel for young adults, This Book Betrays My Brother), Kagiso Lesego Molope delivers a moving and poignant portrait of a South African man’s ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Starlight

By Richard Wagamese

The release of a new Richard Wagamese novel is a cause for celebration. His work is always spellbinding, comprising powerful stories that get to the heart of Canada – funny, sad, sometimes disturbing and weighty, ... Read More »

October 1, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Queen Solomon

By Tamara Faith Berger

Tamara Faith Berger is one of the finest and most daring literary writers of the erotic, adept at capturing the frequently contradictory desires that move us to question often unexamined impulses. Her previous work has ... Read More »

October 1, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Split Tooth

By Tanya Tagaq

As a vocalist and composer, Tanya Tagaq cares little for conventional rules of engagement. An Inuk artist from Iqaluktuutiaq, Tagaq’s performances are innovative and face-meltingly intense, and she has collaborated with a wide array of ... Read More »

September 27, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Memoir & Biography

★ Dear Evelyn

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page’s latest novel is a portrait of a marriage. In this respect, and in its linking of personal and historical events across the 20th century, Dear Evelyn is familiar, even conventional, both formally and ... Read More »

September 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Good Brother

By Tyler Keevil

Tyler Keevil writes stories about men doing manly things. In this, his most immediate and significant literary predecessor is Hemingway, but Keevil also stakes out ground among a group of younger Canadian writers – Kevin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien

By Yves Beauchemin; Wayne Grady (trans.)

In the ominous opening pages of Yves Beauchemin’s new tome, the moon looks “as if it had been dipped in blood,” which matches the titular protagonist’s “shock of gorgeous red hair that gave him the ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tilly and the Crazy Eights

By Monique Gray Smith

Since winning the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature for Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Cree-Lakota-Scottish writer Monique Gray Smith has published three children’s books and produced the podcast ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Circle on the Surface

By Carol Bruneau

Eleven years after the end of the Second World War, Enman Greene waits patiently for his 12-year-old daughter’s music lesson to end. It’s her birthday, and he has decided at lunch to finally tell her ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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