Reviews

Cockroach

One morning, as Rawi Hage was waking up from dreams that must be filled with the din of a relentless violence, he ...

By Katia Grubisic

Distantly Related to Freud

It would be easy to confuse Ann Charney's latest novel, Distantly Related to Freud, with the sort of book ...

By Faustus Salvador

Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth

However accustomed we may be to reading stories about the Holocaust, less frequently do we read post-Holocaust ...

By Adriana Palanca

Almond Wine and Fertilitiy

Montrealer Licia Canton's debut short story collection travels back and forth between Canada and Italy, ...

By Laura Roberts

The Soul of All Great Designs

There is a movie from the 1960s whose plot goes something like this: a small plane and a jet airliner take off ...

By Neil Scotten

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock

Matt Bissonnette's Smash Your Head on the Punk deals with young people coming of age and coming to art, ...

By Matt Bissonnette

Shuck

Shuck is a compelling treatment of a young man's quest for identity and artistic awareness. Jaeven Marshall ...

By Marisa Grizenko

The River Runs Orange

R.J. Harlick's latest mystery opens with detective Meg Harris and her lover Eric Odjik, chief of a band of the ...

By Elspeth Redmond

The Murder Stone

Louise Penny has made an inspired choice of locale for her fourth Chief Inspector Gamache mystery. She has moved ...

By Elspeth Redmond

The White Space Between

Almost everyone has a photo album, full of black and white pictures with old-fashioned white borders, inherited ...

By Elizabeth Johnston

The New Left: Legacy and Continuity

Dimitrios Roussopoulos has chosen a variety of voices for this anthology; some are academically opaque, but others ...

By Margaret Goldik