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The O’Briens

By Peter Behrens

Compared to the relative restraint of his 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning first novel, The Law of Dreams, which chronicled, over the course of a year, an Irish emigrant’s attempt to flee to Canada during ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

And Me Among Them

By Kristen den Hartog

Rather than exploit its seven-foot-two-inch tall narrator as a kind of grotesque spectacle, Kristen den Hartog’s new novel uses the character’s unusual physique as a way of illuminating the world from an extraordinary perspective. Ruth ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A World Elsewhere

By Wayne Johnston

Two young, bright, male students from very different backgrounds meet at Princeton University in the late 19th century and develop such a close relationship that acquaintances accuse them of being “sodomites.” They are both eccentric, ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Never Knowing

By Chevy Stevens

The debut psychological thriller from Chevy Stevens, last year’s Still Missing, attracted a mix of raves and boos for the unflinching way it depicted female violence, but the sheer volume of attention lavished on it ... Read More »

July 21, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Guilty Plea

By Robert Rotenberg

After more than two years, criminal lawyer Robert Rotenberg returns to the fictional courthouses, chambers, back rooms, and dark halls of Toronto’s legal demimonde, and to the methodical and unassuming investigative habits of detective Ari ... Read More »

July 21, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels