This Fallen Prey

In This Fallen Prey, prolific writer Kelley Armstrong returns (for the third time) to the fictional Rockton, a secretive Yukon town established as a sanctuary for people fleeing threats from the outside world. Casey Butler ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Italian Teacher

By Tom Rachman

Does great art excuse terrible behaviour? What is it like to live in the shadow of a hell-bent genius? These questions drive Tom Rachman’s third novel. Returning, in part, to Rome – the setting for ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Young Frances

By Hartley Lin

For many, this new graphic novel from Hartley Lin will signal the debut of a talented, thoughtful cartoonist. But connoisseurs of Canadian literary comics have already gotten to know Lin’s work over the past decade, ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Graphica

Sofie & Cecilia

By Katherine Ashenburg

Noted non-fiction writer Katherine Ashenburg’s debut novel is a thoughtful contribution to the now-familiar genre of fiction about women overshadowed by their proximity to masculine greatness. As Sofie & Cecilia emphasizes, the cost of male ... Read More »

March 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Red Word

By Sarah Henstra

It is not often easy to identify the ways cultural myths imbue our daily behaviour; a byproduct of any widely accepted mythology is the extent to which it embeds itself in our social consciousness and ... Read More »

March 8, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rule of Stephens

By Timothy Taylor

Despite the notable presence of anxiety-suppressing and sleep meds (from A to Z: Ativan, Klonopin, Paxipam, Valium, Xanax, Zopiclone), along with 499 souls killed in a jet crash and another handful of suicides, The Rule ... Read More »

March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By Elaine Craig

Sexual assault victims contemplate the legal system with foreboding, their instincts for self-preservation sharpened by the experience of sexual assault itself. The punishing cross-examinations of victims in sexual assault trials are well known. Progressive changes ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Comedian

By Clem Martini

Prolific novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Clem Martini focuses on his beloved theatre world – the milieu in which he has spent much of his professional life – with this clever first-person novel about classical Roman ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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