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★ Fauna

By Alissa York

Alissa York’s Fauna is an extraordinary novel. A departure from the author’s previous, more historically minded works (including 2007’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Effigy), Fauna takes place in the hidden, wild corners of present-day Toronto, where ... Read More »

August 3, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Still Missing

By Chevy Stevens

Annie O’Sullivan has good reason to complain during her regularly scheduled therapy sessions. But the thirtysomething’s revelations go far beyond Portnoy-style gripes. Where once her hometown, the tiny Vancouver Island hamlet of Clayton Falls, was ... Read More »

July 22, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Warhol Gang

By Peter Darbyshire

“Trotsky,” the code-named narrator of Peter Darbyshire’s sophomore novel, is a lot like the unnamed protagonist of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club. He’s urban, disgruntled, savvy, aimless, underpaid, and deeply skeptical of the corporate ... Read More »

June 28, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels