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By Eleanor Catton

The plot is conventionally provocative: in the aftermath of a high school sex scandal, a group of teenage girls become aware of their own power. However, in The Rehearsal, the first novel by Canadian-born, New ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith opens his new collection of stories with a cheeky definition of the imaginary titular object: “An instrument, in book form, used for viewing a disparate (but hopefully, not grotesquely so) collection of impossible ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Allan Stratton

The premise of Allan Stratton’s new YA novel is an intriguing one. Suppose you are a teenage Muslim boy growing up in middle-class America, and just when you begin to suspect that your Iranian-born father ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

By Andreas Oertel

Twelve-year-old Cody and his best friend Eric are spending a typically drowsy summer in Sultana, Manitoba, when the unthinkable happens. With the local MacFie River almost dry because of an extended drought, the business owners ... Read More »

April 19, 2010