Fiction: Novels

Isolated Incident

An anonymous individual approaches a nondescript storefront in a strip mall in Toronto’s Rexdale neighbourhood that houses a mosque. They smash its windows, its entrance door, and dent the sign above it. With red ... Read More »

November 23, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My Indian Summer

By Joseph Kakwinokanasum

Family doesn’t always mean blood, and blood doesn’t always mean family – 12-year-old Hunter, who is desperate to follow his older sister out of the tiny British Columbia town of Red Rock and escape his ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Fayne

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s first novel in eight years, Fayne, is a reinvention for the bestselling author, who turns her attention away from the Canadian locales of her previous works to the wild borderlands of the British ... Read More »

October 18, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Elephant on Karlův Bridge

By Thomas Trofimuk

In his latest novel, The Elephant on Karlův Bridge, Thomas Trofimuk imagines the escape of an elephant named Sal from the Prague zoo on an early July morning. The novel follows the elephant through the ... Read More »

October 12, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

By Leonard Cohen

Reading the early and previously unpublished fiction of a writer – especially one known mainly for poetry – may produce some surprises, not all of them pleasant. And when the writer in question is a ... Read More »

October 5, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ We Spread

By Iain Reid

We Spread – the dizzying, stunning fourth novel from Ontario writer Iain Reid – begins in isolation. Octogenarian Penny lives alone in the apartment she once shared with her partner (referred to only as “he”) ... Read More »

September 21, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Mukbang

By Fanie Demeule and Anita Anand (trans.)

One statement from a mother to her child – “You scare me” – changes everything. In Mukbang, Fanie Demeule’s sixth book, the author explores the insatiable hunger of those who were raised on the hollow ... Read More »

September 21, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Some Hellish

By Nicholas Herring

When most people think of the Prince Edward Island of literature, the image that comes up is of red-haired Anne Shirley and her romantic, sentimental adventures. But there is another, more rugged tradition of Atlantic ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Quiet Time

By Katherine Alexandra Harvey

“Have you ever heard of kintsukuroi?” Grace’s therapist, Trevor, asks her near the end of Katherine Alexandra Harvey’s grim, piercing debut, Quiet Time. “It’s this amazing Japanese art form. ... they repair vases that have ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Jones

By Neil Smith

Humour abounds in Jones. On practically every page, there it is. “Gerbils are rats with better PR,” opines Joy Jones. She’s called Brassy Broad by her teenage daughter, Abigail, who possesses “the long, straight, ... Read More »

August 17, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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