Alexander Hackett

This is dense writing that buoys you up and floats you through its ambience, unbothered by a certain degree of disorientation.

How political is jazz?

Louisa Blair's book is a whimsical and entertaining collection of vignettes about Canada's first naturalists.

Bruce Sudds' novel draws on Ireland's Great Famine to tell the multigenerational story of a family of immigrants.

Mark Abley's memoir of travelling overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in 1978 is gorgeous and lyrical.

Josip Novakovich's frightening and darkly hilarious new novel is a story of the early post-communism years in Russia.