Fiction: Novels

★ The Blinds

“Damnatio Memorae,” reads graffiti sprayed across the walls of a trashed workshop in the remote Texas town of Caesura, the setting for Adam Sternbergh’s taut conceptual thriller, The Blinds. “The condemnation of memory”: that ominous ... Read More »

July 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Heavy Bear

By Tim Bowling

“I was as sane as any man in the twenty-first century can expect to be,” says the protagonist of The Heavy Bear, “dragging the bloodied pelt of the twentieth century behind him.” Prolific poet Tim ... Read More »

June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Searching for Petronius Totem

By Peter Unwin

The 21st-century digitized world – replete with technology that allows governments to surveil their own citizens and corporations to engage in ever-more-sophisticated target marketing as a means of selling their customers’ own obsessions back to ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

By Jessica Raya

Jessica Raya published her first novel, The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club, in 2007 under the pseudonym Jessica Morrison. Ten years later, she returns with her own name and a new book – a politically ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Matter of Geography

By Jasmine D’Costa

Can a story be about immigration if it doesn’t include a single scene set in the adopted country? This is a question that gets tested in Jasmine D’Costa’s first novel, which is set in Bombay. ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Water Beetles

By Michael Kaan

War has been described in so many essentially different ways – as the failure of humanity or the expression of its basest instincts, as outright chaos or an exchange of tactical manoeuvres – that perhaps ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Be Ready for the Lightning

By Grace O’Connell

There is no shortage of artworks that have incorporated motifs from Peter Pan for extra emotional ballast, but I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered one that does so as beautifully as Be Ready for the ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Walkaway

By Cory Doctorow

In Walkaway, Cory Doctorow – author of the novel Little Brother and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing – offers a scathing critique of capitalism in the context of a near-future society in which ... Read More »

June 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dictator

By David Layton

In the 1930s, when many countries, including Canada, were turning away Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, one unlikely country actively sought out these refugees: the Dominican Republic. At the Evian Conference in 1938, the Caribbean island ... Read More »

May 29, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fugue States

By Pasha Malla

In the wake of his father’s death, Ash, the 30-something Toronto-based host of a literary radio show, finds a single credible candidate for the position of “buddy.” Matt, who has been a more or less ... Read More »

May 29, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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