April 2008
Joshua Auerbach's excellent book has a miscellaneous quality that is not uncommon in first collections. It ...
April 2008
There are many winters in Todd Swift's Winter Tennis: ageing, bereavement, failure, lost love, anxiety, ...
April 2008
In commending V.S. Naipaul's Nobel Prize-winning novel In A Free State in 2001, the Swedish Academy ...

April 2008
Ice pellets are raining down on Montreal the afternoon I arrive at Linda Leith's home in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce - a ...
November 2007
Kindellan-Sheehan's thrillers featuring Caitlin Donovan and her friend Carmen have previously been set in Miami ...
November 2007
To the Far Shore is as much a requiem for a country as it is a memoir of a man's youthful adventures. A ...
November 2007
Categories are often demeaning, especially when it comes to art and artists, yet how would readers find or choose ...
November 2007
White Rapids isn't the first graphic novel to combine stunning images with minimal text, but it's probably ...
November 2007
Among the literary genres, the short story is one of the trickiest to write. Ironically, it is also the form with ...
November 2007
The Hole Show is Maya Merrick's second novel and is a toothsome trawl through Montreal vérité. There are ...
November 2007
The book's title may be worrisome at first glance: is this going to be a collection of "slacker" stories? The ...
November 2007
In Peter Dubé's collection of "fictions," the reader enters into a strange world of the author's creation, one ...