Reviews

★ Three Parties

Set on a “splendid” June day in 1923, the apparent placidity of Mrs. Dalloway – in which a well-heeled Londoner runs errands in preparation for a dinner party – confounds expectations, thanks to Virginia Woolf’s ... Read More »

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Property

By Kate Cayley

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

You’ve Changed

By Ian Williams

“You’ve Changed,” a 1942 song recorded by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Marvin Gaye, and dozens of others, ends with the miserable, if resigned, lines: “No need to tell me that we’re through / It’s all ... Read More »

August 27, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Rufous and Calliope

By Sarah Louise Butler

Rufous and Calliope, the stunning new novel by West Kootenay, B.C., writer Sarah Louise Butler, begins with a glimpse of the past. On Halloween night, 1979, five siblings in costume are trick-or-treating in a small ... Read More »

August 20, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Longest Night

By Lauren Carter

On a frigid night in December 2020 in rural Minnesota, 18-year-old Ash sneaks out of the house, needing a break from the tension of her parents’ constant fighting. Her grandmother Goma has recently died of ... Read More »

August 13, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times

By James Cairns

In an age of doomscrolling clickbait, atrocity porn, and the three Ts – Trump, tariffs, terror – anyone could be forgiven for concluding the world is in a state of perpetual crisis. Responses to such ... Read More »

July 23, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment, Social Sciences

A Quiet Disappearance

By Rabindranath Maharaj

Leila Marshy’s collection of stories, My Thievery of the People, is full of incisive political commentary on people and how we interact with and hide from each other. In this new collection, the story settings ... Read More »

June 25, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

My Thievery of the People

By Leila Marshy

June 25, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric Essays on Neurodivergence and Neurofatherhood

By Shane Neilson

In the early 1940s, an anonymous patron commissioned Anaïs Nin and several of her literary chums to write erotica for a dollar a page. This man, who Nin referred to as The Collector, gave ... Read More »

June 18, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Endling

By Maria Reva

A malacologist, a bride, an interpreter, and a bride buyer meet on a romance tour on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is not the set-up to an off-colour joke told ... Read More »

June 11, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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