Fiction: Novels

★ Property

Set on a “splendid” June day in 1923, the apparent placidity of Mrs. Dalloway – in which a well-heeled Londoner runs errands in preparation for a dinner party – confounds expectations, thanks to Virginia Woolf’s ... Read More »

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

You’ve Changed

By Ian Williams

“You’ve Changed,” a 1942 song recorded by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Marvin Gaye, and dozens of others, ends with the miserable, if resigned, lines: “No need to tell me that we’re through / It’s all ... Read More »

August 27, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Rufous and Calliope

By Sarah Louise Butler

Rufous and Calliope, the stunning new novel by West Kootenay, B.C., writer Sarah Louise Butler, begins with a glimpse of the past. On Halloween night, 1979, five siblings in costume are trick-or-treating in a small ... Read More »

August 20, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Longest Night

By Lauren Carter

On a frigid night in December 2020 in rural Minnesota, 18-year-old Ash sneaks out of the house, needing a break from the tension of her parents’ constant fighting. Her grandmother Goma has recently died of ... Read More »

August 13, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Endling

By Maria Reva

A malacologist, a bride, an interpreter, and a bride buyer meet on a romance tour on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is not the set-up to an off-colour joke told ... Read More »

June 11, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Here

By Heidi Wicks

In “Bubbles,” the first story in Here, the new short story collection (more on that momentarily) from St. John’s, Newfoundland, writer Heidi Wicks, Brenda returns (in a vague disgrace) from working in Montreal to her ... Read More »

June 4, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ I Remember Lights

By Ben Ladouceur

Hello, gorgeous. Barbra Streisand’s iconic line, as Fanny Brice, captured during the filming of Funny Girl in late 1967, has all sorts of uses. Unbidden, the line came to me as I pored over the ... Read More »

March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Flesh

By David Szalay

“There’s something terrible about the way normality asserts itself.” The statement, placed in the close third-person consciousness of István, the protagonist of Montreal-born David Szalay’s latest novel, could serve as a thesis for the entire ... Read More »

March 5, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Hester in Sunlight

By Hannah Calder

Just shy of 175 years ago, Hester Prynne secured a primo spot in literary history. Arguably, thanks to school curricula and films such as Easy A, Hester remains a familiar name. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne describes ... Read More »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Subterrane

By Valérie Bah

Representation in the arts isn’t simply a matter of augmenting narratives that have been neglected. Within any identity category, there are bound to be fractures – nuances and contradictions that defy easy categorization. Must efforts ... Read More »

October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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