Reviews

Hello, Me Pretty

This translation of Te malade, toi! is a perfect example of the strengths of the graphic novel medium. It ...

By Ian McGillis

Jalna

Mazo de la Roche's Jalna won the Atlantic Monthly-Little, Brown Award for Best Novel in 1927 and became an ...

By Margaret Goldik

An Easy Mark

Caitlin Donovan, heroine of Sands Motel and Cutting Corners, has gone through gut-wrenching ...

By Margaret Goldik

Garcia’s Heart

Reading the blurb on the back cover of a novel can be a tricky affair. Any mention of torture, Honduras, and ...

By Faustus Salvador

Optique

Optique lends credence to Susan Sontag's declaration that "to collect photographs is to collect the world." ...

By Gillian Savigny

Dead Cold

Dead Cold is the sequel to Penny's successful debut novel, Still Life. She has created a complex and ...

By Elspeth Redmond

The First Thing We Do

The First Thing We Do vividly evokes the Montreal of late 1991. Linguistic tensions are running high, and ...

By Elspeth Redmond

Lullabies for Little Criminals

In Lullabies for Little Criminals, debut novelist Heather O'Neill tells the story of Baby, a motherless ...

By Anne Chudobiak

Suddenly the Minotaur

Suddenly the Minotaur, winner of the 2003 Prix Anne-Hébert in its original French-language edition, is an ...

By Marc Kokinski

Human

Human, the fifth novel by one-time Governor General's award winner Aube, is the story of an encounter ...

By Marc Kokinski

The Coward Files

Ryan Arnold's greatest accomplishment in this collection is a genuine depiction of the sad-sacks of the world, ...

By Adriana Palanca