The World Before Us

"Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past,” wrote T.S. Eliot in “Burnt Norton.” Aislinn Hunter’s intricately composed and gripping sophomore novel ... Read More »

July 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Interference

By Michelle Berry

In a season of manicured lawns, backyard BBQs, and the comforting illusion of middle-class normalcy, Michelle Berry’s uncanny fifth novel reminds us that even the most seemingly ordinary neighbourhoods may be anything but. Beginning in ... Read More »

July 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Irregular Verbs

By Matthew Johnson

In her introduction to Matthew Johnson’s new collection of short stories, Helen Marshall refers to the “perfect language” writers dream of: “Here is a writer who … can make something new,” Marshall says of Johnson. ... Read More »

July 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Child of a Hidden Sea

By A.M. Dellamonica

Even by the action-oriented standards of the fantasy genre, A.M. Dellamonica’s new novel begins with a bang. Or, rather, a splash. Sophie Hansa is searching for her birth mother when she intervenes in a fight ... Read More »

July 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sweet Affliction

By Anna Leventhal

The 15 stories that make up Journey Prize nominee Anna Leventhal’s debut collection, set in contemporary and recent-past Montreal, are about people who stumble and struggle and don’t always do the right thing. Most of ... Read More »

July 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mating for Life

By Marissa Stapley

In her debut novel, Toronto’s Marissa Stapley challenges entrenched ideas of what it means to be a wife and mother, and explores how modern women often struggle to maintain their own identities in the face ... Read More »

July 10, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guyana

By Élise Turcotte; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

Rhonda Mullins’ translation of Montreal writer Élise Turcotte’s 2011 novel instantly transports readers into a cramped world that nearly shimmers with fear. Ana is clinging to a tenuous bond with her touch-averse young son, Philippe, ... Read More »

July 7, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Plague

By C.C. Humphreys

The new thriller by C.C. Humphreys opens in England in the year 1665. Gentleman thief and ex-cavalier Captain Coke is being pursued by Pitman, a bounty hunter and former roundhead with a growing family to ... Read More »

July 3, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Juliet Was a Surprise

By Bill Gaston

Novelist, dramatist, poet, and short-story writer Bill Gaston is a quadruple threat, but it’s with his stories that he’s had the most measurable success (his 2002 collection, Mount Appetite, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Summertime Swamp Love

By Patricia Young

Patricia Young, author of 12 previous books of poetry, has embarked on a peculiar mission in her latest volume: getting inside the psyches of animals with deviant (by human standards) sexual practices. Summertime Swamp Love ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

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