Fiction

The Art of Deception

For all their say-so existence, art forgeries are almost always as satisfying as the honest article. Indeed, those ...

By Carmine Starnino

Spare Parts Plus Two

Initially published in 1981, Gail Scott's first book, Spare Parts, underwent stereotypographic cryopreservation ...

By X. I. Selene

Grave Suspects

If trends in crime fiction were a reflection of reality, the streets of Montreal would be awash with blood. The ...

By Melissa Scowcroft

That Sleep of Death

If trends in crime fiction were a reflection of reality, the streets of Montreal would be awash with blood. The ...

By Melissa Scowcroft

The Originals

In the press release that accompanied my copy of L.E. Vollick's first novel, it says that the author, born in ...

By Joel Yanofsky

A Tourist’s Guide to Glengarry

It's hard to imagine a busier or more stressful day than the one the boy Neil McDonald experiences in the pages of ...

By Reg Silvester

Sea Peach

Two autumns ago, browsing in The Word bookstore, I came across a handsome purple chapbook called psittacine ...

By Gemini Jones

The War Criminal

Horst Schneider, formerly a member of the Nazi SS and chauffeur for Reinhard Heydrich, the man who designed ...

By Mark Heffernan

All Pure Souls

Raymond Chandler begins Red Wind, one of his Philip Marlowe detective stories, with a blood-boiling heat ...

By William Brown

Behind the Face of Winter

H. Nigel Thomas's second novel covers much of the same physical and psychological territory as his first, ...

By Doug Rollins

House of Sighs

The idyllic and the peculiar merge in Jocelyne Saucier's House of Sighs, the off-kilter imaginary memoirs ...

By X. I. Selene

One Beautiful Day to Come

The translation of Robert Lalonde's important 1986 novel, Une belle journée d'avance, deserves flawless ...

By X. I. Selene