Where Did You Sleep Last Night

In November of 1993, six months before his death, Kurt Cobain performed a searing cover of Lead Belly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” during an acoustic show for MTV in New York. Perched delicately ... Read More »

April 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Free Man

By Michel Basilières

Admirers of Michel Basilières’ Black Bird, which won the 2003 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, have been waiting for a follow-up for more than a decade. Apparently, it’s not coming. According to a throwaway ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Against a Darkening Sky

By Lauren B. Davis

Lauren B. Davis’s latest novel transports its reader back to seventh-century England, where widespread belief in superstitions, spirits, and gods galore collides with the birth of Christianity. In her acknowledgments, the author likens her imaginative ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

When the Saints

By Sarah Mian

Sarah Mian is a true storyteller – a poet and short-story writer, the Nova Scotia–based author is also a fixture on CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera. She certainly knows how to spin a good ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan

By Robert Hough

From a contemporary Russian mail-order bride in The Culprits to a 1930s charlatan on the Mexican-American border in Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, Robert Hough’s novels reveal a capacity for carefully researched forays into strikingly esoteric areas. ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

At the Water’s Edge

By Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, returns with her fifth novel, a tale of privilege, ambition, romance, and self-discovery set in the Scottish Highlands during the final year of the Second World War. For ... Read More »

March 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Winter Family

By Clifford Jackman

The de-mythologizing of the Wild West in popular culture began with the Italian spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. These movies eschewed the idealized and heroic Hollywood vision of the West and instead emphasized violence, moral ... Read More »

March 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Night Stages

By Jane Urquhart

At the centre of Jane Urquhart’s new novel is Flight and Its Allegories, a mural painted by the Canadian artist Kenneth Lochhead for the airport in Gander, Newfoundland. This picture links the various time frames ... Read More »

March 19, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cauchemar

By Alexandra Grigorescu

A veil between the living and the dead is lifted to chilling effect in Cauchemar, the eerie debut novel by Toronto writer Alexandra Grigorescu. Set at the edge of a swamp in present-day Louisiana, the ... Read More »

March 16, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Walking Man

By Paul Dore

Filmmaker and podcaster Paul Dore wants to tell the honest-to-goodness truth – by writing it as fiction. The Walking Man flirts with being a confessional chronicle, but, at its best moments, it becomes a globetrotting ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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