Sweetland

The title of Michael Crummey’s new novel is the name of both the main character and the economically eclipsed Newfoundland outport island he inhabits. The story explores the extent to which one is indivisible from ... Read More »

August 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ellen in Pieces

By Caroline Adderson

Unfolding in a collection of scenes that bounce back and forth in time, and told through multiple perspectives, Ellen in Pieces could easily have been a confusing mess. Instead, in her new novel for adults, ... Read More »

August 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

By Daniel J. Levitin

Daniel J. Levitin, professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at McGill University and author of the bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs, is clearly in tune with the ... Read More »

August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Between

By Angie Abdou

Angie Abdou’s third novel is primarily concerned with the tension between two disperate cultural perspectives, and the nature of female identity it illuminates. Vero is a well-drawn portrait of a harried wife and unhinged mother: ... Read More »

August 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tell

By Frances Itani

It has been more than 10 years since Frances Itani found “overnight success” with her novel Deafening, after publishing several volumes of poetry and short stories over the course of the previous three decades. The ... Read More »

July 31, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The World Before Us

By Aislinn Hunter

"Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past,” wrote T.S. Eliot in “Burnt Norton.” Aislinn Hunter’s intricately composed and gripping sophomore novel ... Read More »

July 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Interference

By Michelle Berry

In a season of manicured lawns, backyard BBQs, and the comforting illusion of middle-class normalcy, Michelle Berry’s uncanny fifth novel reminds us that even the most seemingly ordinary neighbourhoods may be anything but. Beginning in ... Read More »

July 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Irregular Verbs

By Matthew Johnson

In her introduction to Matthew Johnson’s new collection of short stories, Helen Marshall refers to the “perfect language” writers dream of: “Here is a writer who … can make something new,” Marshall says of Johnson. ... Read More »

July 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Child of a Hidden Sea

By A.M. Dellamonica

Even by the action-oriented standards of the fantasy genre, A.M. Dellamonica’s new novel begins with a bang. Or, rather, a splash. Sophie Hansa is searching for her birth mother when she intervenes in a fight ... Read More »

July 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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