Hell Never Burns is part one of Fournier’s exploration of Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s life. His English ...
By B. A. Markus
Reviews
Exactly three years ago, Haiti was levelled by a massive earthquake, and while the international media was quick to give us an overall picture of the devastation through harrowing footage and dire statistics, it largely ignored the resilience of the Haitian people.
By Heather Leighton
Rathwell's deep understanding of and personal experience in the developing world is obvious in Jump the Devil, his latest collection of linked short stories.
By B. A. Markus
Alice Petersen is the author of the recently published short-story collection All the Voices Cry. ...
By Katia Grubisic
Mai at the Predators’ Ball begins with Dieudonné saying to Petites Cendres “love, my friend, love before ...
By Elise Moser
Rawi Hage likes to think of himself as a historical novelist, but you wouldn’t know it from reading his new novel Carnival. Set in an unspecified time, in an unnamed city, it contains no historical figures or events.
By Eric Boodman
As one of Canada’s early modern poets, a woman who lived almost a century and spent the better part of it making some of the most startling, masterful writing we’ve seen, P. K. Page cut her own path.
By Anna Leventhal
From the reader’s vantage, the book hinges on characters meeting themselves. What makes All the Voices Cry hold our attention is that the characters can’t see it.
By Katia Grubisic
Kirby, a lawyer with one of Canada’s largest firms, skilfully draws on his experience to tell the tale of five homeless people murdered on the streets of Montreal on Christmas Eve.
By Jim Napier
Literature abounds with similarly uninspired narrators, which makes me wonder why loser narrators are so popular.Why do we buy these books when writing guides tell us no one wants to read about losers?
By Sarah Fletcher
hen David Solway coined the phrase “double exile” to describe the situation of the English-language writers in ...
By Abby Paige
oing Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown is the latest collection of non-fiction by Ishmael ...
By Jean Coléno