Ryan Arnold's greatest accomplishment in this collection is a genuine depiction of the sad-sacks of the world, ...
By Adriana Palanca
Fiction
Human, the fifth novel by one-time Governor General's award winner Aube, is the story of an encounter ...
By Marc Kokinski
Suddenly the Minotaur, winner of the 2003 Prix Anne-Hébert in its original French-language edition, is an ...
By Marc Kokinski
In Lullabies for Little Criminals, debut novelist Heather O'Neill tells the story of Baby, a motherless ...
By Anne Chudobiak
The First Thing We Do vividly evokes the Montreal of late 1991. Linguistic tensions are running high, and ...
By Elspeth Redmond
Dead Cold is the sequel to Penny's successful debut novel, Still Life. She has created a complex and ...
By Elspeth Redmond
Optique lends credence to Susan Sontag's declaration that "to collect photographs is to collect the world." ...
By Gillian Savigny
Reading the blurb on the back cover of a novel can be a tricky affair. Any mention of torture, Honduras, and ...
By Faustus Salvador
The Ratcatcher opens brilliantly, with a fascinating idea, a sensually evoked setting, and striking ...
By Claude Lalumière
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a little voice tells me that muckraker David Bernans - a "political gadfly," ...
By Richard Wong
When a character dreams in fiction, readers are supposed to perk up and pay attention.
Whether the dream ...
By Dimitri Nasrallah
The central conceit of the book is moles: brown ones, white ones, raised and stretched, sprouting, mottled or ...
By Dylan Young