Fiction

The Rent Collector

The tattered and bedraggled Montreal shmatte (rag or garment) business is the material of choice for B. ...

By Kristine Kowalchuk

The Extraordinary Garden

François Gravel’s most remarkable contribution may not in fact be his Governor General’s Award for Children’s ...

By X. I. Selene

Adieu, Betty Crocker

François Gravel’s most remarkable contribution may not in fact be his Governor General’s Award for Children’s ...

By X. I. Selene

The Far Away Home

Marci Denesiuk’s debut short story collection focuses on the unexamined lives of anchorless women on the brink of ...

By Ibi Kaslik

The School At Chartres

David Manicom’s new novel opens in Montreal in the 1990s. John Wilson, an architect turned historian, has rented a ...

By Kelly Norah Drukker

Sextant

At first glance, Sextant looks like the work of yet another hip and edgy young writer portraying urban life ...

By Angie Gallop

Cities of Weather

Montrealer Matthew Fox projects a vision of youth that’s grounded in harsh realism. Cities of Weather is an ...

By Andrea Belcham

The Pagan Nuptials of Julia

Have you ever noticed how bookstore browsers don't judge a book by its front cover? They glance at it for a few ...

By William Brown

Blackbodying

The immigrant experience is one of the central themes – some might say the central theme – in contemporary ...

By Ian McGillis

Garbage Head

Artists, writers, and philosophers have been sounding warning bells about one thing or another throughout history. ...

By Elizabeth Johnston

Apikoros Sleuth

At the heart of Apikoros Sleuth is the question “Why the book?” The current hybrid reading environment – in ...

By X. I. Selene

Bloodknots

It’s perhaps fitting that Ami Sands Brodoff’s collection of short fiction, Bloodknots, contains a few ...

By Kristine Kowalchuk