★ This Is How We Love

Lisa Moore’s latest novel contains all the hallmarks that fans of the St. John’s author have come to expect: tightly constructed chapters that paint vivid images despite their almost minimalist prose; dialogue and turns of ... Read More »

May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Autonomy

By Victoria Hetherington

Abortion is illegal, a plague is spreading, and the Arctic needs defending from Russia. No, Victoria Hetherington’s new novel, Autonomy, doesn’t take place next Thursday. The year is 2035, the place Ontario, and – aside ... Read More »

April 12, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Hotline

By Dimitri Nasrallah

Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline connects the reader to Muna Heddad, a widow and recent immigrant from Lebanon, as she navigates Montreal’s cold and lonely streets – which are cold as much from the unwelcoming disposition of ... Read More »

March 23, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Music Game

By Stéfanie Clermont; J.C. Sutcliffe; trans.

In the prologue to Stéfanie Clermont’s debut novel – a multiple award winner in Quebec – she paints a portrait of an urban oasis. It is a spot in the Montreal neighbourhood of Hochelaga where ... Read More »

March 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Daughters of the Deer

By Danielle Daniel

In her debut novel for adults, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning children’s author Danielle Daniel mines her family history to tell an affecting and difficult story of colonialism, love, loss, and resilience based on two ... Read More »

March 14, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

My Two-Faced Luck

By Brett Josef Grubisic

“Fifty-nine-year-old homosexual found guilty of murdering an elderly widow at sea on a cruise ship.” This snippet from a criminology reference text provides a starting point for the novel My Two-Faced Luck, Brett Josef Grubisic’s ... Read More »

February 22, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Troupers

By Richard Scarsbrook

In his 2020 volume On Nostalgia, David Berry points out that the Greek root of “nostalgia” refers to a condition resembling homesickness or, more literally, a pain associated with home. This is particularly germane to ... Read More »

February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Letters to Amelia

By Lindsay Zier-Vogel

This debut novel by Lindsay Zier-Vogel begins with a breakup that’s as bewildering as it is agonizing. Grace Porter, a library technician at the University of Toronto, has built what seems to be a predictable ... Read More »

February 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue-Skinned Gods

By SJ Sindu

Stories of deceit and exploitation perpetuated with the help of blind faith abound, each more confounding than the last. In 2015, it came to light that a self-styled Indian godman had convinced 400 male followers ... Read More »

February 8, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Place

By Lee Gowan

The wry narrator of Margaret Atwood’s short story “Happy Endings” downgrades plot to “just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.” Well, maybe. But the number of whats and the ... Read More »

January 31, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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