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By Ed O’Loughlin

Toploader is an occasionally funny but ultimately flawed satire of American imperialism written very much in the spirit of Carl Hiaasen. What it takes from Hiaasen is the elaborate comic contraption of a plot driven ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Lesleyanne Ryan

Covering five days following the fall of Srebrenica in 1995, Lesleyanne Ryan’s debut novel provides a potent – and extremely graphic – look at ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. Ryan tells the story via ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Annabel Lyon

The opening pages of Annabel Lyon’s second novel feature seven-year-old Pythias, the daughter of Aristotle, dissecting a lamb under her father’s watchful gaze. The young girl, almost preternaturally curious, has been denied the right to ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Nina Bunjevac

Along with Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly, Conundrum Press, based in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, is responsible for publishing most of the cutting-edge graphica this country has seen in the past several years. Both presses delight ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Graphica

By Shelley A. Leedahl

When cracking open a new collection of short fiction, it’s not encouraging to discover the following sentence fewer than 10 pages in: “Playing cards trumped all else in our family.” This kind of affected punning ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short