A Beckoning War

Jim McFarlane is an Ottawa teacher stuck in what he calls “an interim life” with “an interim wife.” He wants more. He wants an opportunity “to prove himself,” to show what kind of man he ... Read More »

May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smoke

By Dan Vyleta

Contemporary novels heralded as “Dickensian” are usually so only superficially: they’re just long books with multiple plots and a sprinkling of grotesque or quirky characters. Only rarely do they capture the other qualities that earned ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mercy Journals

By Claudia Casper

We have seen the sort of world depicted in Claudia Casper’s new novel before: a near-future dystopia, wracked in the wake of a global war and an environmental cataclysm, with governments driven to extreme measures ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Marlowe

By Michelle Butler Hallett

The fourth novel by St. John’s author Michelle Butler Hallett is a fictional account of the months leading up to playwright Christopher Marlowe’s untimely death in 1593. The mysterious circumstances of Marlowe’s demise, historical evidence ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Yiddish for Pirates

By Gary Barwin

Among the cascading absurdities, ironies, and japeries that attach to Gary Barwin’s debut novel for adults, the most outrageous has nothing to do with the book’s content. It concerns the fact that Barwin – a ... Read More »

April 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Naturalist

By Alissa York

In the recent film The Revenant, set in the Montana wilderness of the early 1800s, it is hard to distinguish the trappers in their bear coats and patched skins from the wild creatures around them. ... Read More »

April 13, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Memento

By Christy Ann Conlin

Fourteen years have passed since Christy Ann Conlin wowed readers and critics alike with Heave, her debut novel about an independent, hard-drinking woman on the Bay of Fundy coast. Conlin returns to this setting with ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Black Coat

By Neamat Imam

It is a testament to the relatively placid temperament of the Canadian state that political fiction in this country tends to tilt either in the direction of Wayne Johnston’s myth-making or Terry Fallis’s broad comedy. ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Angel’s Jig

By Daniel Poliquin; Wayne Grady (trans.)

Slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834, but in the years between 1875 and 1925 (roughly), orphans and indigent seniors in parts of New Brunswick were regularly auctioned off as unpaid servants – slaves, in ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Principles to Live By

By David Adams Richards

Grounded in the Christian doctrine of self-sacrifice and original sin, the unflinching moral vision of David Adams Richards has set his work in opposition to the relativist, humanist worldview espoused by the majority of Canadian ... Read More »

April 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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