Reviews

★ Stasio

Stasio, the brilliant and powerful new novel from prize-winning writer Tamas Dobozy (Siege 13, Ghost Geographies), opens with bloodshed. “The children were killed first,” the novel begins, with a brutal understatement that characterizes the book. ... Read More »

July 24, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Art of Camouflage

By Sara Power

In her debut short story collection, Art of Camouflage, Sara Power explores what it means for women and girls to be at their lowest point, and how they can emerge from such depths. Through subtle ... Read More »

July 3, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Lost Tarot

By Sarah Henstra

“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse,” said the British-Mexican 20th-century surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington. “I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.” As a statement ... Read More »

June 26, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Cicada Summer

By Erica McKeen

Like Italo Calvino’s groundbreaking novel If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler, Erica McKeen’s Cicada Summer (her second book, following on Tear, winner of the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction) embraces ... Read More »

June 19, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

WakeWord

By Wakefield Brewster

Bringing spoken word poetry to the page has historically been seen as controversial, since academia has tended to dictate the ways that poetry can be received and read, and spoken word consistently continues to challenge ... Read More »

June 12, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The War You Don’t Hate

By Blaise Ndala; Dimitri Nasrallah (trans.)

When two former rebel soldiers return to the Great Lakes region of Africa after the Second Congo War, their mission for truth takes on new meaning when they cross paths with a Canadian filmmaker who ... Read More »

May 22, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Jellyfish

By Boum; Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (trans.)

“Graphic medicine” – graphic novels that give a window into various medical conditions, usually from the patient’s point of view – has become a significant publishing trend in recent years, producing notable works such as ... Read More »

May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Graphica, Health & Self-help, Reviews

★ The Hollow Beast

By Christophe Bernard; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

Christophe Bernard’s epic debut novel opens with what under any other circumstances would sound like a tall tale. In the last moments of the annual Gaspé diocese junior hockey tournament’s final game, the underdogs, a ... Read More »

May 8, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Behind You

By Catherine Hernandez

If you lived in or near Toronto in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you probably have some recollection of the Scarborough Rapist’s reign of terror. If you are a woman, its impact is likely ... Read More »

May 7, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Village Weavers

By Myriam J.A. Chancy

Myriam J.A. Chancy’s Village Weavers captures the origins, intersections, and ruptures of a lifelong friendship between Simone (Sisi) Val and Gertude (Gertie) Alcindor. The novel’s scope is ambitious, as it leaps between 1940s Port-au-Prince, 1970s ... Read More »

May 1, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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