Quill and Quire

By Mike Harrison

Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie. Such claims are somewhat exaggerated for a career only three books old, yet ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Nadine McInnis

Two Hemispheres, Ottawa-based poet Nadine McInnis’s fifth collection, is a chronicle of depression and recovery told from both a personal and a historical viewpoint. McInnis constructs 10 accounts of mental illness based on mid-19th-century photographs ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

By Stephen Henighan

The eight stories that comprise author and combative literary critic Stephen Henighan’s new collection of short fiction, most of them set in Central Europe, deftly capture the isolation and disconnectedness of the outsider through expatriate ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short