The Original Face

A lot has been written about millennials, a generation that has supposedly forsaken home ownership, careerism, and casual sex in favour of social media and bespoke underwear. A cohort of entitled, lazy, disinterested narcissists who ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ghost Warning

By Kara Stanley

Seventeen-year-old Lou James recalls her journalist father saying to her in a moment of reflection, “Maybe there is no point in living or dying, other than the overarching point that we are biological organisms trying ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Thousand Consolations

By Julie Roorda

“Love is not an emotion, but a sense.” Thus begins Julie Roorda’s sweetly funny debut novel, a story of the unexpected romance between Paula, a grieving Toronto widow, and Héctor Vargas, a pianist on the ... Read More »

October 26, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment

By Claude Lalumière

There is a Monty Python sketch from 1969 called “Candid Photography” (or sometimes simply “Nudge, Nudge”), in which a young rake interrogates an older, conservative man about his sex life by means of cryptic but ... Read More »

October 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Reckoning

By Linda Spalding

The biblical principle of the sins of the father being visited upon the sons is very much at play in Linda Spalding’s follow-up to her 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award winner, The Purchase. That novel ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

To Me You Seem Giant

By Greg Rhyno

The most effective vehicles for nostalgia are often sensory: the sight of former stomping grounds revisited after time away; the unbearably saccharine wave of the vodka coolers you swore off after too many notoriously bad ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fiddler Is a Good Woman

By Geoff Berner

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shoe on the Roof

By Will Ferguson

Is madness a choice? Can a person be “driven sane” through behaviour modification and tough love? Is a sense of oneness with God nothing more than a reaction to stimulation in a specific part of ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Carpenter from Montreal

By George Fetherling

“Am I trying to deal with a crisis I left behind?” wonders Cynthia McConnell near the beginning of George Fetherling’s neo-noir novel. Well might she ask, as she speaks to us from beyond the grave ... Read More »

October 3, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Hummingbird

By Tristan Hughes

It’s summer in Sitting Down Lake, a community of four cabins in northern Ontario, and Zachary Tayler, the 15-year-old narrator of Tristan Hughes’s fifth novel, struggles with loss and loneliness. “I don’t recall ever thinking ... Read More »

September 25, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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