Reviews

Radius of Light

Joshua Auerbach's excellent book has a miscellaneous quality that is not uncommon in first collections. It ...

By Bert Almon

Winter Tennis

There are many winters in Todd Swift's Winter Tennis: ageing, bereavement, failure, lost love, anxiety, ...

By Aparna Sanyal

Chef

In commending V.S. Naipaul's Nobel Prize-winning novel In A Free State in 2001, the Swedish Academy ...

By Neil Scotten

The Desert Lake

The Desert Lake

Ice pellets are raining down on Montreal the afternoon I arrive at Linda Leith's home in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce - a ...

By Faustus Salvador

The Wrong Move

Kindellan-Sheehan's thrillers featuring Caitlin Donovan and her friend Carmen have previously been set in Miami ...

By Margaret Goldik

To the Far Shore

To the Far Shore is as much a requiem for a country as it is a memoir of a man's youthful adventures. A ...

By Marina Malidzanovic

The Skin Beneath

Categories are often demeaning, especially when it comes to art and artists, yet how would readers find or choose ...

By Ami Sands Brodoff

White Rapids

White Rapids isn't the first graphic novel to combine stunning images with minimal text, but it's probably ...

By Ed Janzen

Pardon our Monsters

Among the literary genres, the short story is one of the trickiest to write. Ironically, it is also the form with ...

By Faustus Salvador

The Hole Show

The Hole Show is Maya Merrick's second novel and is a toothsome trawl through Montreal vérité. There are ...

By Neil Scotten

A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine

The book's title may be worrisome at first glance: is this going to be a collection of "slacker" stories? The ...

By Jeffrey Mackie

At the Bottom of the Sky

In Peter Dubé's collection of "fictions," the reader enters into a strange world of the author's creation, one ...

By Jeffrey Mackie