Quill and Quire

By Pasha Malla

At first glance, Pasha Malla’s intriguing first short-fiction collection, The Withdrawal Method, seems like a mishmash of narrative oddities, complete with a perplexingly unappealing title. But long after I had finished reading them, Malla’s stories ... Read More »

May 20, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By J.D. Carpenter

In Twelve Trees, author J.D. Carpenter moves away from the well-received genre work of his Campbell Young mysteries and into a more mainstream form. The new novel explores one day in the life of opinionated ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings’ name should be familiar to Canadian mystery readers as well as fans of the TV adaptations of her seven novels starring Victorian-era Toronto detective William Murdoch. She has since turned her attention to ... Read More »

April 14, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Rita Wong

Forage, Rita Wong’s second collection, is poetry that attacks modern power politics and attempts to modernize traditional poetics without stripping them of their value. These are poems that find their voice in the didactic. Indeed, ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry