★ Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

What does it mean to be a man? How do we tell our most intimate stories? In her provocative, sophisticated fourth novel, Shani Mootoo addresses these questions while reflecting on notions of home, identity, and ... Read More »

May 12, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Age

By Nancy Lee

In 2002, Nancy Lee’s Dead Girls, a collection of dark, chilling stories exploring the lives of murdered teens and lost women in Vancouver, thrilled critics here and abroad. Twelve years later, Lee returns with a ... Read More »

May 8, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Smoke River

By Krista Foss

The best books destroy you, overwhelm you with deep feelings – despair, anger, love, defiance, frustration, yearning, bitterness, pain. In her debut novel, former journalist and two-time Journey Prize finalist Krista Foss elicits precisely this ... Read More »

May 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Pastoral

By André Alexis

André Alexis’s new novella should be neither judged nor dismissed on the basis of its title. The pastoral is often defined by clean images that conjure the simplicity, serenity, and charm of rural places and ... Read More »

May 1, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Confabulist

By Steven Galloway

Martin Strauss is doubly cursed: he is the victim of a degenerative condition that destroys his memories while replacing them with false ones, and the man responsible for the death of Harry Houdini. He is ... Read More »

April 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ All My Puny Sorrows

By Miriam Toews

The choice to die and the shame associated with suicide are at the thematic heart of Miriam Toews’s stunning sixth novel. This is not unexpected, given that the author herself has been touched by suicide ... Read More »

April 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hair-Trigger

By Trevor Clark

With his new novel, Vancouver writer Trevor Clark takes readers deep into Toronto’s dark underbelly, an emotionally barren world of guns, drugs, and casual violence. It’s a world without joy, but that’s only part of ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Licence of War

By Claire Letemendia

Five years after the release of her first novel, The Best of Men, Claire Letemendia resumes the story of the dashing Laurence Beaumont’s political and romantic intrigues. It is 1643 and civil war is wracking ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Empress of the Night

By Eva Stachniak

Eva Stachniak’s previous novel, The Winter Palace, was a well-received work of historical fiction about Catherine the Great. Narrated by one of Catherine’s most trusted attendants, Varvara, it spanned the future monarch’s arrival in Russia ... Read More »

April 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Fire in the Unnameable Country

By Ghalib Islam

The Modernist tradition does not exert a powerful influence over Canadian literature. Although this country boasts a number of important Modernist writers – F.R. Scott, Ralph Gustafson, Dorothy Livesay, and Earle Birney among them – ... Read More »

April 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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