Reviews

Different Beasts

One of the most beguiling attributes of the short-story genre is its malleability. Stories are shape-shifters, tugging and testing the elasticity of the form in ways that often subvert readerly expectations. The title story in ... Read More »

September 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

How to Tell If Your Frog Is Dead

By Julie Roorda

September 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Worry

By Jessica Westhead

Human life is fragile and precarious. No one knows this more than Ruth, the preoccupied parent at the centre of Jessica Westhead’s startling and powerfully affecting new novel. Well, perhaps one other person does, as ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Delhi Obsession

By M.G. Vassanji

In 1993, M.G. Vassanji went to India for the very first time. His ancestral home by way of his grandparents has become a subject of enduring fascination – the 2007 novel The Assassin’s Song began ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Testaments

By Margaret Atwood

When Margaret Atwood announced late last year that she was writing a sequel to her bestselling 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, one of the few details she let drop was that the new book ... Read More »

September 10, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Just Pervs

By Jess Taylor

Jess Taylor’s second short-story collection is a bold examination of the contemporary underbelly of women’s desires. The stories centre on nuances of longing that are much more interesting than those found in many mainstream narratives: ... Read More »

September 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Ticking Heart

By Andrew Kaufman

Andrew Kaufman has made a career of using magic and metaphor to shed some entertaining light on human truths and foibles. His sixth novel, The Ticking Heart, literally takes readers to new metaphorical territory. Set ... Read More »

September 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt has become one of Canada’s poetry sweethearts since the release of his 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize winner, This Wound Is a World. His sophomore collection – a masterful blend of the personal and ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Akin

By Emma Donoghue

Noah Selvaggio, the protagonist of Emma Donoghue’s new novel, doesn’t like change. His Upper West Side apartment is a shrine to the past; he can’t even bring himself to throw out his dead dog’s old ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Claremont

By Wiebke von Carolsfeld

Claremont, by filmmaker turned novelist Wiebke von Carolsfeld, is a novel about the emotionally messy Michajelovich family, all of whom come with their own baggage and their own techniques for lugging it through life. We ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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