Step Closer

Tessa McWatt’s fourth novel for adults is a powerful and suspenseful examination of relationships and the secrets that can both create and destroy them. McWatt creates suspense by flashing backward and forward in time. In ... Read More »

June 15, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

After the Red Night

By Christiane Frenette; Sheila Fischman,trans.

After the Red Night, the latest novel by Quebec author Christiane Frenette, opens with brief “gesture drawings” of its five characters three nights after Rimouski’s “la nuit rouge” in May 1950, when fire devastated half ... Read More »

June 8, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Laughing Wolf

By Nicholas Maes

There are few themes quite so overused and abused in speculative fiction as time travel. It’s such a well-tilled field that few writers can produce a time-travel novel that doesn’t induce eye-rolls or a sense ... Read More »

June 1, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The Exclusion Principle

By Leona Gom

Astronomer Avey Fleming and his wife Kate strive to keep their feet on the ground while reaching for the stars in The Exclusion Principle, the latest work by veteran novelist and poet Leona Gom. When ... Read More »

May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Collected Doug Wright: Canada’s Master Cartoonist

By Doug Wright; Seth, ed.

This shiny, retro-modern-style coffee table book on the work of the once-celebrated cartoonist Doug Wright, edited by well-known comic book artist Seth, is a beautiful object. Filled with full-page strips and blown-up illustrations, the book ... Read More »

May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Where We Have to Go

By Lauren Kirshner

A young Toronto girl blossoms into adulthood in Lauren Kirshner’s sweet and touching debut Where We Have to Go. Like adolescence itself, the novel contains some moments of awkward fumbling, but wins the reader over ... Read More »

May 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Awakening

By Kelley Armstrong

As the second book in Kelley Armstrong’s The Darkest Powers trilogy opens, 15-year-old Chloe Saunders is still clinging, albeit precariously, to the notion that her life may one day return to its dull but safe ... Read More »

May 4, 2009

Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip

By Lisa Robertson

Ex-Vancouverite Lisa Robertson’s eighth book is classified as poetry, but is no straightforward volume of lyrics. It also contains “essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias” written between 1995 and 2007. Robertson’s work ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Expressway

By Sina Queyras

In her first book of poems since her collection Lemon Hound, Montreal-based Sina Queyras employs the Romantic tradition of pastoral poetry to create passionate indictments of our consumerist, car-obsessed culture and our fast-lane mentality. In ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Pigeon

By Karen Solie

Karen Solie achieved near-instant acclaim with the multiple award nominations and wins heaped on her first collection, Short Haul Engine. If her excellent follow-up, Modern and Normal, didn’t prove outright that Solie wasn’t resting on ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

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