★ What Strange Paradise

What Strange Paradise, the powerful new novel from Omar El Akkad, begins with a stark and disturbingly familiar image: “The child lies on the shore. All around him the beach is littered with the wreckage ... Read More »

June 28, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Son of the House

By Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes ... Read More »

June 7, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Day for Night

By Jean McNeil

It’s never easy to examine why we love whom we love and what happens when that love changes – or is transferred. Nor is it easy to live with ghosts of any kind hooked over ... Read More »

May 31, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Astra

By Cedar Bowers

At once a character study and a group portrait, Cedar Bowers’s debut novel takes its name from its heroine, Astra Winter Sorrow Brine, born and raised on Celestial Farm, a British Columbian agricultural commune. With ... Read More »

May 17, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Lucky

By Marissa Stapley

In the 2019 comedy The Hustle, the con team played by Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson muse over why women are better suited to heists than men. “Because no man will ever believe a woman ... Read More »

May 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ This Eden

By Ed O’Loughlin

This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact ... Read More »

May 3, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Speak, Silence

By Kim Echlin

In May 1993, the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in response to the horrendous crimes perpetrated against civilians during the region’s conflicts in the 1990s. The tribunal’s objective ... Read More »

April 26, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Second Place

By Rachel Cusk

Like much of Rachel Cusk’s writing, Second Place feels more like a conduit for philosophical and cultural thought than mere storytelling. Told in the first person, Cusk’s 11th work of fiction recounts a summer in ... Read More »

April 19, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Foregone

By Russell Banks

Midway through Foregone, the latest novel from Russell Banks, the main character recalls a woman who published a memoir titled My Autobiography as I Remember It. Banks’s protagonist, a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife, ... Read More »

April 12, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Charity

By Keath Fraser

Is there a more misunderstood or neglected literary form than the novella? Even more than poetry or short fiction, the novella tends to get overlooked by readers and publishers alike, neither seeming to know quite ... Read More »

March 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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