Fiction

Us Fools Believing

Us Fools Believing offers eleven stories that span two worlds: the familiar territory of unhappy daughters and ...

By Edward R. Smith

The Fat Princess

The Fat Princess is less a novel than an extended prologue. It’s an anecdotal ramble with a preliterate savant ...

By Padma Viswanathan

Flesh And Blood

“Lies. Disappointment. Poverty.” This is how Rose, the central character in Flesh and Blood, sums up her marriage ...

By Andrew Steinmetz

Fairy Ring

Fairy Ring

The ordinary epistolary novel is akin to an archive, its narrative artifacts carefully assembled by an oblique ...

By X. I. Selene

A Kind Of Fiction

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

Recovering Rude

In the “Acknowledgements” of Recovering Rude, first-time novelist Rana Bose makes a somewhat coy reference to ...

By Jill Rollins

A Summer Without Dawn

This novel is a work of adventure and historical fiction whose action focuses on the plight of an Armenian family ...

By Mark Heffernan

Realia

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

Overnight Sensation

This second novel from playwright Colleen Curran is a journal of the year 1992 in the life of Montrealaise Lenore ...

By Padma Viswanathan

Ondine’s Curse

Steven Manners' debut novel is a complex, layered work that examines the murky world of psychiatry and pathology ...

By Maria Simpson

The Beothuk Saga

There are books whose ending you know before you start reading, but which will keep you fascinated all the way ...

By Mary Soderstrom

Tsubaki

In her first novel, Aki Shimazaki articulates a loss taking place today: the deaths of World War II's last ...

By X. I. Selene