Fiction

Short Accounts of Tragic Occurrences

Dying is easy, comedy is hard. Nick McArthur seems to find both in equal quantities, jovially mixing dark humour ...

By Christopher Olson

The Brutal Telling

A scary tale told by firelight opens the fifth mystery in Louise Penny's Three Pines series. The scary tale ...

By Elspeth Redmond

Iced Under

Nadine Doolittle's debut novel is a mixture of literature, mystery, and romance. The story soars thanks to ...

By Margaret Goldik

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!

Jonathan Goldstein may have had good connections with God. He almost went to yeshiva to study the Torah. Almost, ...

By Byron Rempel

Drop-In

Dave Lapp's graphic novel Drop-In is a collection of autobiographical tales set in a Toronto drop-in ...

By Correy Baldwin

Papercut Heart

Papercut Heart collects several zines by Ian Sullivan Cant. The book is irresistible for its small size and ...

By Correy Baldwin

Mobile 9

Bill Haugland's face is familiar to many Montrealers: for nearly three decades he was news anchor on CFCF TV's ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Kremlin Betrayal

Berger's mixture of fact and fiction grabs the reader from the very first page. In grimy postwar London, six ...

By Margaret Goldik

After the Red Night

In a recent episode on CBC's Ideas, famed cognitive scientist Endel Tulvig remarked that our memory of ...

By Brian Campbell

This One’s Going to Last Forever

The discovery of fossil fuels gave people in the West the equivalent power of slaves, according to economist ...

By Elizabeth Johnston

Selected Blackouts

John Goldbach has a gift for startling opening passages that shift unexpectedly from the ordinary to the surreal, ...

By Kate Forrest

Ruins and Relics

Alice Zorn's debut short story collection embodies what we have come to expect of Canadian fiction. The language ...

By Aparna Sanyal