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Fiction: Novels

A Good Name

By Yejide Kilanko

Yejide Kilanko’s intimate cross-section of a marriage in A Good Name not only investigates cultural expectations and familial duties but also homes in on the realities of immigrant life in America. After 12 gruelling years ... Read More »

December 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Last Tide

By Andy Zuliani

Satellite views, surveillance technology, a “pixelating smudge,” the “vacuum of industrial deserts”: in the engrossing (and dialogue-free) opening chapter of his debut novel, Vancouver-based Andy Zuliani builds a memorably foreboding atmosphere using science-fiction tropes. City-dwelling ... Read More »

November 9, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Yume

By Sifton Tracey Anipare

While some may believe that the demons of our nightmares exist only in dreams, in Sifton Tracey Anipare’s debut novel, Yume, humans, demons, and yokai- (supernatural creatures and spirits) feed and imbibe in waking realities. ... Read More »

October 19, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Strangers

By Katherena Vermette

It should come as no surprise that The Strangers, Katherena Vermette’s companion to the multi-award-winning novel The Break, garnered a spot on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist and the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize ... Read More »

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Red X

By David Demchuk

Author and playwright David Demchuk was deeply affected by the murders committed by Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur; he knew one of the victims personally. But what if the disappearances of gay and bisexual men ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews