The Testaments

When Margaret Atwood announced late last year that she was writing a sequel to her bestselling 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, one of the few details she let drop was that the new book ... Read More »

September 10, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ticking Heart

By Andrew Kaufman

Andrew Kaufman has made a career of using magic and metaphor to shed some entertaining light on human truths and foibles. His sixth novel, The Ticking Heart, literally takes readers to new metaphorical territory. Set ... Read More »

September 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Akin

By Emma Donoghue

Noah Selvaggio, the protagonist of Emma Donoghue’s new novel, doesn’t like change. His Upper West Side apartment is a shrine to the past; he can’t even bring himself to throw out his dead dog’s old ... Read More »

September 5, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Claremont

By Wiebke von Carolsfeld

Claremont, by filmmaker turned novelist Wiebke von Carolsfeld, is a novel about the emotionally messy Michajelovich family, all of whom come with their own baggage and their own techniques for lugging it through life. We ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

There Has to Be a Knife

By Adnan Khan

During the 2014 edition of Canada Reads, Rawi Hage’s novel Cockroach received biting criticism. Its unnamed protagonist is a traumatized immigrant from the Middle East who finds residence in Montreal and ekes out a life ... Read More »

August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Watching You Without Me

By Lynn Coady

After four novels, two short-story collections (including the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning Hellgoing), and appearances in myriad journals and anthologies, we’ve come to expect a certain level of excellence from Lynn Coady. Though less forceful ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Greenwood

By Michael Christie

In Greenwood, his thought-provoking second novel, B.C. writer Michael Christie uses the ringed cross-section of a tree as an organizing principle and structure. As Christie writes, “Wood is time captured. A map. A cellular memory. ... Read More »

August 26, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Innocents

By Michael Crummey

The Book of Genesis meets “Hansel and Gretel” by way of Flowers in the Attic: that would not be an inappropriate way to situate Michael Crummey’s new novel, a return to historical fiction following 2014’s ... Read More »

August 22, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Small Sacrifice

By Hilary Davidson

The new novel from Toronto-born thriller writer Hilary Davidson starts with a bang: “When he heard the gunshot, Alex Traynor threw himself face first onto the pavement.” While this incident turns out to be Traynor ... Read More »

July 18, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Youth of God

By Hassan Ghedi Santur

Hassan Ghedi Santur’s novel The Youth of God is a heart-stopping story that traces the life of Nuur, a teenager growing up in a Somali neighbourhood of Toronto. This is also a story about Mr. ... Read More »

July 18, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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