Reviews

HA! A Self-Murder Mystery

At first glance, HA! seems daunting: 800 pages on the subject of the suicide of one of Quebec's most ...

By Anne Cimon

Tables for One: A Spanish Journal

Tables for One is the true story of a year Montreal native Robert Johnson spent in Spain working on a novel ...

By Sarah Rosenfeld

After All!

Hugh Hood died in 2000. This volume collects the last of his stories, in sequence. On first read they seem almost ...

By Margaret Goldik

Song for My Father

In Song for My Father Miriam Packer steps into some big footprints: those of Mordecai Richler and his early ...

By Mary Soderstrom

The Speaking Cure

David Homel's new novel tries to meet the challenge that other writers-cultural voyeurs and marauders of the ...

By Mark Heffernan

Universal Recipients

Dana Bath's is also concerned with feminist issues. The opening story, set in Japan, raises questions about ...

By Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach

The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle

I was lying alone in the dark recently when an old Roy Orbison tune, "Falling," came on the radio, reaching across ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

The Applecross Spell

Wendy MacIntyre, in The Applecross Spell, has written a provocative novel with a strong feminist and ...

By Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach