Reviews

Dream Sequence

Two spare, world-spanning new novels by gifted prose stylists plumb the themes of love, death, and desire. Set on airplanes, in lonely flats, houses, and hotels, Turbulence by David Szalay and Dream Sequence by Adam ... Read More »

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Turbulence

By David Szalay

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Found Drowned

By Laurie Glenn Norris

Early in Laurie Glenn Norris’s new novel – which is based on a real murder – 16-year-old Mary Harney, her brother and sister, and her mother, Ann, travel home after a visit to Ann’s family. ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Proof I Was Here

By Becky Blake

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose in Proof I Was Here, the debut novel by Toronto writer Becky Blake. Expat Niki walks out of her Barcelona apartment, leaving her relationship – ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Perfect City: An Urban Fixer’s Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis

By Joe Berridge

Joe Berridge is a storied urban planner and self-identified “city builder,” with a multinational client list and a thick personal Rolodex. Berridge’s new book, part of the inaugural list for Toronto-based non-fiction publisher Sutherland House, ... Read More »

June 10, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

The Dead Celebrities Club

By Susan Swan

With a cover that features a pixelated 1950s portrait of Zsa Zsa Gabor (a camp icon associated with Hungarian schtick, nine husbands, and that time she famously slapped a police officer’s face) and a title ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

I Become a Delight to My Enemies

By Sara Peters

The ambitious genre mashup of Sara Peters’s I Become a Delight to My Enemies is described by its publisher as “experimental fiction.” This is a somewhat catch-all term; in the current case, Peters combines poetry ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Poetry, Reviews

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By Samra Habib

In her debut memoir, author Samra Habib writes with lucidity and sensory depth, taking care to maintain the specificity of her experience without resorting to cultural absolutes. We Have Always Been Here traces the author’s ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Your Life Is Mine

By Nathan Ripley

It would likely take a team of graduate students to determine exactly why this is occurring now, but interest in cults, their members, and leaders – always somewhat in the background – has once again ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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