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Into the Sun

They can be found in every contemporary war zone – daredevil journalists, amoral mercenaries, and assorted foreign do-gooders. Some go seeking adventure, some are addicted to warfare, and others are plagued by liberal guilt over ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

By Erin Wunker

Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection Men Explain Things to Me and Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist opened the floodgates for a spate of similar works from writers ruminating on the exasperating experience of being female in today’s ... Read More »

September 28, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

By Deborah Campbell

B.C. author Deborah Campbell, a self-styled “immersive journalist” who has published in Harper’s, The Walrus, and elsewhere, sees it as her goal to “bridge the gap between the readers of magazines I write for … ... Read More »

September 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Break

By Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette’s first book, North End Love Songs, a poetry collection set among Winnipeg’s Métis community, won a 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award. In her debut novel, the author finds herself in familiar and heart-wrenching ... Read More »

September 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Adjustment League

By Mike Barnes

The Super lives a quiet, solitary life, taking care of a rundown Toronto apartment building in exchange for a break on the rent. After what happened to his wife and daughter, he craves the routine ... Read More »

September 20, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Niagara Motel

By Ashley Little

Ashley Little, author of the 2014 novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang, which won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, goes on a road trip in ... Read More »

September 15, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bit Rot: stories + essays

By Douglas Coupland

It seems quaint that Douglas Coupland’s latest work should arrive in so prosaic a form as thinly sliced trees bound between slightly thicker-cut trees. After all, the Vancouver visual artist, writer, and designer – now ... Read More »

September 12, 2016 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Nostalgia

By M.G. Vassanji

Having previously mined his South Asian heritage, East African upbringing, and North American education in historically soaked fiction and non-fiction, M.G. Vassanji turns to the future in his new novel, somewhat ironically titled Nostalgia. On ... Read More »

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Couple Next Door

By Shari Lapeña

The July/August issue of The Atlantic features a long essay by Terrence Rafferty about the recent spate of best-selling crime fiction by women. “A number of years ago,” Rafferty writes, “I realized that most of ... Read More »

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All the Things We Leave Behind

By Riel Nason

Riel Nason’s All the Things We Leave Behind is a novel of hauntings: characters are haunted, variously, by people, nature, memory, and the way things were. Evoking nostalgic reverie – bolstered by its summer 1977 ... Read More »

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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