Fog

James M. Cain was once quoted as saying he wanted to write about “the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country.” It seems Montreal-based ... Read More »

July 15, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Bunny

By Mona Awad

Mona Awad’s Bunny is gripping, frenetically readable, and bewilderingly erotic. In this exploration of how women’s repressed rage and desires can manifest, Awad weaponizes cuteness in a ferocious and dynamic way. The author’s second novel ... Read More »

July 15, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Copperhead

By Alexi Zentner

Jessup is a high-school senior in upstate New York who has bucked the odds – single mom, no money, trailer-park home – to earn himself a potential Ivy League football scholarship and all that implies. ... Read More »

July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Hideaway

By Nicole Lundrigan

Things are not okay in the Janes house. Patriarch Telly has moved out to live with another woman, leaving 13-year-old Rowan and seven-year-old Maisy in the care of their mom. Gloria, the matriarch, is at ... Read More »

July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Dream Sequence

By Adam Foulds

Two spare, world-spanning new novels by gifted prose stylists plumb the themes of love, death, and desire. Set on airplanes, in lonely flats, houses, and hotels, Turbulence by David Szalay and Dream Sequence by Adam ... Read More »

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Turbulence

By David Szalay

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Found Drowned

By Laurie Glenn Norris

Early in Laurie Glenn Norris’s new novel – which is based on a real murder – 16-year-old Mary Harney, her brother and sister, and her mother, Ann, travel home after a visit to Ann’s family. ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Proof I Was Here

By Becky Blake

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose in Proof I Was Here, the debut novel by Toronto writer Becky Blake. Expat Niki walks out of her Barcelona apartment, leaving her relationship – ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Dead Celebrities Club

By Susan Swan

With a cover that features a pixelated 1950s portrait of Zsa Zsa Gabor (a camp icon associated with Hungarian schtick, nine husbands, and that time she famously slapped a police officer’s face) and a title ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

I Become a Delight to My Enemies

By Sara Peters

The ambitious genre mashup of Sara Peters’s I Become a Delight to My Enemies is described by its publisher as “experimental fiction.” This is a somewhat catch-all term; in the current case, Peters combines poetry ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Poetry, Reviews

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