The postmodern novel is a neat if shopworn trick to pull off, for built into its deep structure is a retort to any ...
By Will Aitken
Fiction
Like some of the Quebec intelligentsia he pillories in his new essay/novel, In the Name of the Father, ...
By Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos
Us Fools Believing offers eleven stories that span two worlds: the familiar territory of unhappy daughters and ...
By Edward R. Smith
The Fat Princess is less a novel than an extended prologue. It’s an anecdotal ramble with a preliterate savant ...
By Padma Viswanathan
“Lies. Disappointment. Poverty.” This is how Rose, the central character in Flesh and Blood, sums up her marriage ...
By Andrew Steinmetz
The ordinary epistolary novel is akin to an archive, its narrative artifacts carefully assembled by an oblique ...
By X. I. Selene
When I was three years old, P.K. Page won the Governor-General’s Award for poetry.
Twenty years later, as a ...
By Ian Ferrier
In the “Acknowledgements” of Recovering Rude, first-time novelist Rana Bose makes a somewhat coy reference to ...
By Jill Rollins
This novel is a work of adventure and historical fiction whose action focuses on the plight of an Armenian family ...
By Mark Heffernan
I have to confess that I had a soft spot for this novel even before I read it. I like Will Aitken, partially ...
By Ian Ferrier
This second novel from playwright Colleen Curran is a journal of the year 1992 in the life of Montrealaise Lenore ...
By Padma Viswanathan
Steven Manners' debut novel is a complex, layered work that examines the murky world of psychiatry and pathology ...
By Maria Simpson