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It has been more than 10 years since Frances Itani found “overnight success” with her novel Deafening, after publishing several volumes of poetry and short stories over the course of the previous three decades. The ... Read More »

July 31, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The World Before Us

By Aislinn Hunter

"Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past,” wrote T.S. Eliot in “Burnt Norton.” Aislinn Hunter’s intricately composed and gripping sophomore novel ... Read More »

July 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Interference

By Michelle Berry

In a season of manicured lawns, backyard BBQs, and the comforting illusion of middle-class normalcy, Michelle Berry’s uncanny fifth novel reminds us that even the most seemingly ordinary neighbourhoods may be anything but. Beginning in ... Read More »

July 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Irregular Verbs

By Matthew Johnson

In her introduction to Matthew Johnson’s new collection of short stories, Helen Marshall refers to the “perfect language” writers dream of: “Here is a writer who … can make something new,” Marshall says of Johnson. ... Read More »

July 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Child of a Hidden Sea

By A.M. Dellamonica

Even by the action-oriented standards of the fantasy genre, A.M. Dellamonica’s new novel begins with a bang. Or, rather, a splash. Sophie Hansa is searching for her birth mother when she intervenes in a fight ... Read More »

July 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sweet Affliction

By Anna Leventhal

The 15 stories that make up Journey Prize nominee Anna Leventhal’s debut collection, set in contemporary and recent-past Montreal, are about people who stumble and struggle and don’t always do the right thing. Most of ... Read More »

July 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mating for Life

By Marissa Stapley

In her debut novel, Toronto’s Marissa Stapley challenges entrenched ideas of what it means to be a wife and mother, and explores how modern women often struggle to maintain their own identities in the face ... Read More »

July 10, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guyana

By Élise Turcotte; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

Rhonda Mullins’ translation of Montreal writer Élise Turcotte’s 2011 novel instantly transports readers into a cramped world that nearly shimmers with fear. Ana is clinging to a tenuous bond with her touch-averse young son, Philippe, ... Read More »

July 7, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Plague

By C.C. Humphreys

The new thriller by C.C. Humphreys opens in England in the year 1665. Gentleman thief and ex-cavalier Captain Coke is being pursued by Pitman, a bounty hunter and former roundhead with a growing family to ... Read More »

July 3, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Juliet Was a Surprise

By Bill Gaston

Novelist, dramatist, poet, and short-story writer Bill Gaston is a quadruple threat, but it’s with his stories that he’s had the most measurable success (his 2002 collection, Mount Appetite, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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