★ August into Winter

August into Winter, the stunning new novel from Saskatchewan writer Guy Vanderhaeghe, begins in the late summer of 1939. With the world on the cusp of war – press clippings on the trouble in Europe, ... Read More »

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Strangers

By Katherena Vermette

It should come as no surprise that The Strangers, Katherena Vermette’s companion to the multi-award-winning novel The Break, garnered a spot on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist and the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize ... Read More »

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

By Dawn Dumont

“‘It’s some kind of dance troupe?’ ‘The Prairie Chicken dancers.’ ‘What’s a prairie chicken?’ ‘It’s a bird. Sort of a fat little thing.’ ‘Graceful?’ ‘They can’t fly but they sure can shake.’” When we first ... Read More »

September 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Everything Turns Away

By Michelle Berry

Now that we have enough distance from the early days of the pandemic, it feels instructive to view this global event – and how it has affected us – through the lens of history. The ... Read More »

September 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Red X

By David Demchuk

Author and playwright David Demchuk was deeply affected by the murders committed by Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur; he knew one of the victims personally. But what if the disappearances of gay and bisexual men ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Em

By Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman; trans.

In Kim Thúy’s fiction, Vietnam largely resides in the memories and gestures of those who fled the country during the war. More than a geographic backdrop, the nation occupies the psychic terrain of heroines who ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Listeners

By Jordan Tannahill

At the start of the pandemic, as my life shifted to sitting in my apartment all day, I noticed a noise, like two glasses rubbing together. For weeks, I walked around my place with an ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Undersong

By Kathleen Winter

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. So wrote William Wordsworth of his sister, Dorothy, ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Annual Migration of Clouds

By Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed imagines a dystopic future in a new novella that is deeply speculative and character driven. Through Mohamed’s breathtaking prose, this post-apocalyptic story unravels meditations on community building, adaptation, and collective survival. The narrative ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Singing Forest

By Judith McCormack

The passage of time can shroud awareness of past horrors. What then happens when an atrocity is unearthed decades after the fact? Judith McCormack’s latest novel, The Singing Forest, confronts this question. Two Belarusian boys ... Read More »

August 17, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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★ August into Winter

★ The Strangers

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

★ Everything Turns Away

Red X

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The Listeners

★ Undersong

★ The Annual Migration of Clouds

The Singing Forest

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