Reviews

Ayesha at Last

Uzma Jalaluddin is the latest author to be smitten by Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the lovers so beset by pride and prejudice. Ayesha at Last takes the 200-year-old romantic comedy of manners, ... Read More »

June 25, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mediocracy: The Politics of the Extreme Centre

By Alain Deneault; Catherine Browne (trans.)

In the last week of May, the federal Liberal government announced that it was spending $4.5 billion to buy the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. Condemnation was swift from all sides. Conservatives slammed the ... Read More »

June 21, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Lear’s Shadow

By Claire Holden Rothman

At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is ... Read More »

June 21, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Philistine

By Leila Marshy

Set in the late 1980s around the time of the first Palestinian Intifada, Leila Marshy’s debut novel is a coming-of-age story about Nadia, a naive Montrealer who cannot decide whether she is Palestinian or Canadian. ... Read More »

June 18, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Things She’ll Be Leaving Behind

By Vanessa Farnsworth

Before encountering any of the 22 stories in Vanessa Farnsworth’s debut collection, readers may note the volume’s salient dedication: “For my father, who wouldn’t have understood this book, but who would’ve liked the fact that ... Read More »

June 18, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Atomic Road

By Grant Buday

The foreword, by art historian John O’Brian, informs us that Atomic Road was prompted by a historical footnote that mistakenly placed Louis Althusser in Saskatchewan. The French Marxist philosopher, who died in 1990, had never ... Read More »

June 14, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue River and Red Earth

By Stephen Henighan

In Stephen Henighan’s fourth collection of short fiction, Canada is a remote presence. The stories unfold elsewhere: a research outpost on the Barents Sea, ESL schools across Europe and Latin America, and professional conferences in ... Read More »

June 14, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Crow Jazz

By Linda Rogers

In the acknowledgements to her first short-story collection, acclaimed B.C. poet, essayist, and novelist Linda Rogers amusingly notes, “Accustomed to sips and gulps, poems and novels, the challenge of short fiction was like asking a ... Read More »

June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Amateurs

By Liz Harmer

In her near-perfect debut novel, Liz Harmer taps into current anxieties about technology to explore themes of transcendence, post-urbanity, and survival. Harmer has won a National Magazine Award and been published in multiple literary journals; ... Read More »

June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

On the Up

By Shilo Jones

As it appears in the newspaper these days, Vancouver is a strange, divided city. This perception is reinforced in the expansive fiction debut from former tree planter, English teacher, and University of British Columbia MFA ... Read More »

June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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