Reviews

The Song of Roland

ter three long years, the English translation of Michel Rabagliati’s internationally acclaimed Paul à ...

By Heather Leighton

The List

I didn’t lay a finger on her. I didn’t hire anyone. To sneak in and murder her. And yet it’s as if. I ...

By Alexandria Haber

In the Orchard, the Swallows

After 15 years in prison, a man is suddenly and inexplicably released, pushed outside its gates and left there.

By Josée Lafrenière

Exact Change, Please

Exact Change, Please

For Straphanger, Grescoe did the dirty work that too many of us in North America shun: he rode urban buses, subways, and trains in a dozen countries.

By Leila Marshy

Road to Thunder Hill

It’s a cliché to start a story with the main character waking up – startled or otherwise. But, Connie Barnes Rose’s use of this device in her latest novel, Road to Thunder Hill, manages to work.

By Mélanie Grondin

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground

Public intellectual, lawyer, and poet, F.R. (Francis Reginald) Scott was one of those truly great and spirited Canadians. The Canadian part is important, not just because he was born and lived here, but because he spent his life fighting and writing for what he believed was best for his country and its people.

By Mélanie Grondin

The Bidding

Montreal news reporter Ty Davis, whom we first met in Bill Haugland's Mobile 9, has an international secret society to deal with.

By Mélanie Grondin

Autobiography of Childhood

Autobiography of Childhood

An award-winning poet, anthologist, and teacher, Queyras took a decade to write Autobiography of Childhood.

By Marianne Ackerman

Maintenance

There’s an illustration of a treadmill on the cover of Rob Benvie’s latest novel, Maintenance. It works, and not just because the book features several exercise sequences: a post-conjugal violence workout, a teen’s weightlifting sesh, tennis champs sweating it up on the courts, and even some allusion to a lapsed yoga habit.

By Melissa Bull

Big Questions

Big Questions

Big Questions is the culmination of 15 years worth of work by graphic novelist Anders Nilsen.

By Lori Callaghan