The Dead Celebrities Club

With a cover that features a pixelated 1950s portrait of Zsa Zsa Gabor (a camp icon associated with Hungarian schtick, nine husbands, and that time she famously slapped a police officer’s face) and a title ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

I Become a Delight to My Enemies

By Sara Peters

The ambitious genre mashup of Sara Peters’s I Become a Delight to My Enemies is described by its publisher as “experimental fiction.” This is a somewhat catch-all term; in the current case, Peters combines poetry ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Poetry, Reviews

Your Life Is Mine

By Nathan Ripley

It would likely take a team of graduate students to determine exactly why this is occurring now, but interest in cults, their members, and leaders – always somewhat in the background – has once again ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Every Little Piece of Me

By Amy Jones

In her follow-up to her 2016 debut novel, We’re All in This Together, Amy Jones showcases her winning blend of sardonic humour and melancholy in a story about two young women who are both victims ... Read More »

May 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Empress of Idaho

By Todd Babiak

It’s the long, hot summer of 1989 and 14-year-old Adam Lisinski – high-school football star, loyal friend to Simon, good son to his single mom, Helen – is living on the wrong side of the ... Read More »

May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Teardown

By David Homel

Paul, the journalist at the centre of David Homel’s latest novel, feels stuck. He’s disconnected from his family and believes his profession is dying. He’s grasping at anything that will bring meaning back to his ... Read More »

April 25, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Crow

By Amy Spurway

Stacey Fortune, nicknamed “Crow,” neatly encapsulates the trajectory of Nova Scotian author Amy Spurway’s debut novel early on: “Girl gets tumours, girl loses mind, girl dies, the end.” But the novel is actually about a ... Read More »

April 22, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Bina: A Novel in Warnings

By Anakana Schofield

As calendar year 2019 dawned, political junkies were staring in wonder at the pitched battle raging between U.S. president Donald Trump and incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Literary junkies, on the other hand, ... Read More »

April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Children of the Moon

By Anthony De Sa

Anthony De Sa’s previous books – the Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated story collection Barnacle Love and the novel Kicking the Sky – both examined the experiences of Portuguese immigrants in and around the Toronto neighbourhood where ... Read More »

April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Fatboy Fall Down

By Rabindranath Maharaj

The latest novel by Rabindranath Maharaj – author of last year’s Adjacentland and 2010’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy, which won the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Book Award – is about a man nicknamed ... Read More »

March 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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