The Spectral Engine

Two of the most respected houses in Canadian publishing have graphic novels out this season, and the titles share aspects in common. Each has strong elements of horror, and experiments in form and design. The ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Graphica

★ Auxiliary Skins

By Christine Miscione

When my partner went in to have a mole excised by a dermatological surgeon, I went into the room with him. He has no stomach for the bodily grotesque, while I watch live surgery on ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Other Side of Youth

By Kelli Deeth

The Other Side of Youth is the first book by Torontonian Kelli Deeth since her well-received 2001 debut collection, The Girl Without Anyone. The 11 stories in Deeth’s new collection explore similar territory: fractured families ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Red Girl Rat Boy

By Cynthia Flood

Journey Prize–winning short-story writer Cynthia Flood has a new collection, her fourth, and it showcases her narrative sensitivity, historical range, and courage in using foul language. This relatively slim collection of 11 stories features a ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Savage Love

By Douglas Glover

There are familiar reasons why more people don’t recognize Douglas Glover as one of Canada’s best writers – chief among them the fact that he mainly writes experimental short fiction published by small presses. One ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Keeping Things Whole

By Darryl Whetter

The author of a very fine story collection, an accomplished first novel, and a well-received collection of poetry, Darryl Whetter offers a second novel conceived as a breathless blog by a mid-life dad addressed to ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kolia

By Perrine LeBlanc; David Scott Hamilton, trans.

Kolia’s story begins in a barren labour camp in Eastern Siberia in the late 1930s. Never knowing his father, and separated from his mother at an early age, Kolia’s fortunes are made slightly better thanks ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century but Didn’t Mean To

By Ian Thornton

For more than two hours, the characters in the classic movie Citizen Kane try to discover why the rich man’s last spoken word was “Rosebud.” Who or what is Rosebud? In the final seconds of ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Watch How We Walk

By Jennifer LoveGrove

At some point, every kid who had Jehovah’s Witness classmates must have wondered what happened when their secretive peers skipped the after-school extracurriculars and disappeared behind their front doors. For curious outsiders, Watch How We ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My Ghosts

By Mary Swan

With her second novel, author Mary Swan seems to be issuing a challenge to readers: pay attention. It’s not just that her book is complex, layered, and boasts a large cast of characters – though ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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