Famous Last Meals

The David Cronenberg film Crash (based on J.G. Ballard’s novel) is about people who are sexually aroused by recreating celebrities’ fatal car crashes. The title story in a new book of three novellas by Kingston, ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Welcome to the Circus

By Rhonda Douglas

Rhonda Douglas’s debut collection of short fiction contains 10 eclectic stories that employ humour, metafiction, and pathos to varying degrees of effectiveness. Douglas is at her best when writing about the tumultuous emotional lives of ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Entropic

By R.W. Gray

R.W. Gray is determined to avoid convention; as a result, his stories both intrigue and occasionally alienate the reader. They are impossible to classify in terms of genre, and are set in a slightly off-kilter ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Close to Hugh

By Marina Endicott

Hugh Argylle, title character in Marina Endicott’s latest novel, owns a struggling art gallery in Peterborough, Ontario, and has a lot of people to look after. Over the course of the week in late October ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Makarska

By Makarska

You can never tell how others might react to your art. This is the takeaway from Jim Bartley’s new novel, Makarska, about one family’s lingering scars from the Bosnian War of the mid-1990s. The artist ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

By Marc Lewis; Ph.D.

The arc of Natalie’s descent into addiction began with an experimental appetite for LSD, ecstasy, and, eventually, prescription opiates OxyContin, Percocet, and Dilaudid. From there the college student progressed to smoking, snorting, and finally injecting ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

★ This Is Happy

By Camilla Gibb

In her new memoir, Camilla Gibb writes, “Being able to put your experiences into a narrative gives meaning to the life you have lived.” The awareness that allows for this meaning can only come from ... Read More »

July 23, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Hunter and the Wild Girl

By Pauline Holdstock

The historical fiction of Pauline Holdstock covers an array of time and place. Her previous novel, Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2012, examined life in 18th-century Canada. ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A Woman’s Guide to Coping with Life

By Monica Heisey

From Tina Fey to Amy Poehler to Lena Dunham, comedic memoirs by famous funny females have been successfully climbing up the bestseller lists for the past few years. Canadian-born writer and comedian Monica Heisey doesn’t ... Read More »

July 16, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Black Feathers

By Robert J. Wiersema

Frequent Q&Q reviewer Robert J. Wiersema has a decided taste for the fantastical, as two of his earlier novels, Bedtime Story and The World More Full of Weeping, demonstrate. His new book, Black Feathers, continues ... Read More »

July 13, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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