Reviews

The Couple Next Door

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

★ The Two of Us

By Kathy Page

Toward the end of her fine new collection of deceptively expansive short stories, Kathy Page unfurls a little number called “Daddy,” told from the point of view of a child spelunking with his (her?) father ... Read More »

September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

True Arab Love

By Issa J. Boullata

The first work of fiction by Chinese writer Xue Yiwei to appear in English, Shenzheners is dedicated to “the Irishman who inspires me.” Given that the book comprises a suite of stories focusing on denizens ... Read More »

September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shenzheners

By Cai Gao (ill.); Xue Yiwei‚ Darryl Sterk (trans.)

September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Night Only: Conversations with the NHL’s One-Game Wonders

By Ken Reid

As far as most hockey fans are concerned, there’s only one No. 4. But throughout the 1950s and most of the ’60s – that is, before Bobby Orr ever laced up his skates – No. ... Read More »

September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Take Us to Your Chief

By Drew Hayden Taylor

With The Path of Most Resistance, his first new collection since the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Whirl Away in 2012, Russell Wangersky affirms his position as one of the finest short-story writers currently working in this ... Read More »

September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Five Roses

By Alice Zorn

Readers familiar with Miriam Toews’s earnest rendering of suicide’s complexities and heartbreak in All My Puny Sorrows will appreciate Alice Zorn’s admirable second novel for its equally sober depiction of the lasting impact the act ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

By Ross King

In the spring of 1914, Georges Clemenceau – journalist, republican, once and future prime minster of France – paid a visit to his close friend Claude Monet. The artist had been depressed since the death ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Dependent: A Memoir of Marriage and the Military

By Danielle Daniel

In The Dependent, Danielle Daniel shares the interconnected stories of her troubled marriage to a military man, her struggles with depression, and the accident that left her husband a paraplegic. Recently, several strong women writers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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