Worry

Human life is fragile and precarious. No one knows this more than Ruth, the preoccupied parent at the centre of Jessica Westhead’s startling and powerfully affecting new novel. Well, perhaps one other person does, as ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Delhi Obsession

By M.G. Vassanji

In 1993, M.G. Vassanji went to India for the very first time. His ancestral home by way of his grandparents has become a subject of enduring fascination – the 2007 novel The Assassin’s Song began ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Testaments

By Margaret Atwood

When Margaret Atwood announced late last year that she was writing a sequel to her bestselling 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, one of the few details she let drop was that the new book ... Read More »

September 10, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ticking Heart

By Andrew Kaufman

Andrew Kaufman has made a career of using magic and metaphor to shed some entertaining light on human truths and foibles. His sixth novel, The Ticking Heart, literally takes readers to new metaphorical territory. Set ... Read More »

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

Akin

By Emma Donoghue

Noah Selvaggio, the protagonist of Emma Donoghue’s new novel, doesn’t like change. His Upper West Side apartment is a shrine to the past; he can’t even bring himself to throw out his dead dog’s old ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Claremont

By Wiebke von Carolsfeld

Claremont, by filmmaker turned novelist Wiebke von Carolsfeld, is a novel about the emotionally messy Michajelovich family, all of whom come with their own baggage and their own techniques for lugging it through life. We ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

There Has to Be a Knife

By Adnan Khan

During the 2014 edition of Canada Reads, Rawi Hage’s novel Cockroach received biting criticism. Its unnamed protagonist is a traumatized immigrant from the Middle East who finds residence in Montreal and ekes out a life ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Watching You Without Me

By Lynn Coady

After four novels, two short-story collections (including the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning Hellgoing), and appearances in myriad journals and anthologies, we’ve come to expect a certain level of excellence from Lynn Coady. Though less forceful ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Greenwood

By Michael Christie

In Greenwood, his thought-provoking second novel, B.C. writer Michael Christie uses the ringed cross-section of a tree as an organizing principle and structure. As Christie writes, “Wood is time captured. A map. A cellular memory. ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Innocents

By Michael Crummey

The Book of Genesis meets “Hansel and Gretel” by way of Flowers in the Attic: that would not be an inappropriate way to situate Michael Crummey’s new novel, a return to historical fiction following 2014’s ... Read More »

August 22, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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