Symphony No. 3

The latest from New Brunswick novelist and musician Chris Eaton is a mythopoeic biography of Camille Saint-Saëns as relayed by the Romantic composer’s fictional twin, a figure we quickly come to regard not as a ... Read More »

January 6, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Eater of Dreams

By Kat Cameron

The closing entry in Halifax writer Ryan Turner’s sophomore collection of short fiction is called “Moving.” It’s appropriate, given that the story literally begins in motion, with an opening sentence that reads, “As the train ... Read More »

January 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Half-Sisters and Other Stories

By Ryan Turner

January 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Lost Sister

By Andrea Gunraj

Andrea Gunraj’s much-awaited sophomore novel is a haunting, consistently entrancing read. It tells the tale of two pairs of sisters: Alisha and Diana, growing up in the Jane and Finch area of Toronto, and Paula ... Read More »

December 19, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Difference

By Marina Endicott

What constitutes a home? In her latest novel, Marina Endicott explores this fundamental question. For 12-year-old Kay, the closest thing to a home is the Morning Light, a sailing ship. But it’s 1912, and the ... Read More »

December 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Frogcatchers

By Jeff Lemire

Two new, disquieting graphic novels from a pair of Canadians who have found success on the international stage explore fears, solitude, and shortened days. Sarah Leavitt’s latest imagines and expands the possibilities suggested by a ... Read More »

December 12, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica

Agnes, Murderess

By Sarah Leavitt

December 12, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica

Gorgeous War: The Branding War Between the Third Reich and the United States

By Tim Blackmore

In his new book, author Tim Blackmore compares the way Germany and the U.S. branded themselves during the Second World War. One country was an evil dictatorship; the other a celebrated democracy. Given this reality, ... Read More »

December 5, 2019 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Fatherless: A Memoir

By Keith Maillard

Keith Maillard never knew his father. He was just a baby when his parents split up, and he grew up with the same two stories from his mother: “‘He was a good dancer,’ was the ... Read More »

December 5, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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