Fiction

A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine

The book's title may be worrisome at first glance: is this going to be a collection of "slacker" stories? The ...

By Jeffrey Mackie

The Hole Show

The Hole Show is Maya Merrick's second novel and is a toothsome trawl through Montreal vérité. There are ...

By Neil Scotten

Pardon our Monsters

Among the literary genres, the short story is one of the trickiest to write. Ironically, it is also the form with ...

By Faustus Salvador

White Rapids

White Rapids isn't the first graphic novel to combine stunning images with minimal text, but it's probably ...

By Ed Janzen

The Skin Beneath

Categories are often demeaning, especially when it comes to art and artists, yet how would readers find or choose ...

By Ami Sands Brodoff

To the Far Shore

To the Far Shore is as much a requiem for a country as it is a memoir of a man's youthful adventures. A ...

By Marina Malidzanovic

Rise of the Golden Cobra

Imagine a time and place in which leaders based important military decisions on their dreams, considering these to ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Wombat Smith: Beijing Breakaway!

For those who have not read the first book in the Wombat Smith series, an introduction to the hero is in order. ...

By Annie Murray

Zibby Payne & The Drama Trauma

It's hard not to like Zibby Payne. She's a plucky girl and a talented athlete who does her own thing on her own ...

By Annie Murray

The Secret of Grim Hill

The years of early adolescence are a time when kids may need a little nudge to make reading and literature seem ...

By Angela Carr