Alexander Hackett

The Guilt Trippers is at its best in its vivid descriptions of the city’s neighbourhoods.

This is dense writing that buoys you up and floats you through its ambience, unbothered by a certain degree of disorientation.

How political is jazz?

Louisa Blair's book is a whimsical and entertaining collection of vignettes about Canada's first naturalists.

Bruce Sudds' novel draws on Ireland's Great Famine to tell the multigenerational story of a family of immigrants.

Mark Abley's memoir of travelling overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in 1978 is gorgeous and lyrical.

Josip Novakovich's frightening and darkly hilarious new novel is a story of the early post-communism years in Russia.