Sean Michaels' new novel is about collaboration and exchange – big tech with the arts, author with reader.
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Fiction
Scott Randall's debut highlights the absurdities of the human condition through a day in fifth grader Darby Tamm's life.
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Eva Crocker's latest novel explores moving to Montreal from a small city as a queer person in search of more.
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Casey Bell's book takes heavy themes and wraps them up in fantastical settings, neatly tangling them together through delicate, beautiful prose.
By Roxane Hudon
Luke Francis Beirne's novel is a romance and espionage thriller set against the layered geopolitical context of Ireland in the 1970s.
By Sharon Morrisey
Wayne Ng's novel teaches us that family certainly provides us with the fuel for our own growth, although this sometimes means being far from their reach.
By Phoebe Yì Lǐng
Caroline Dawson digs up and grieves such disowned fragments of self in her gripping autobiographical novel.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Marie-Claire Blais' novel embodies the joy and slipperiness of existence – it reminds us that life is a continuous yet rhythmic flow.
By Emma Dollery
Chris Bergeron's novel mines elements of her own past and present to project trans lives into an unstable future.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
Norman Nawrocki's “fictional chronicle” of the seven-month 2012 Quebec student strike is a love letter to a particular political moment.
By JB Staniforth
Bruce Sudds' novel draws on Ireland's Great Famine to tell the multigenerational story of a family of immigrants.
By Alexander Hackett
In Catherine Leroux's dystopian novel, we find an ecosystem created not by shared history but by shared engagement.
By Bronwyn Averett