The FutureCatherine Leroux (Translated by Susan Ouriou)Biblioasis, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Catherine Leroux’s novel The Future (freshly translated by Susan Ouriou) presents a complex, layered story that probes how people navigate turbulent times, alone and together. She asks...
Silver RepetitionLily WangHouse of Anansi Press, 2024 Review by Maria Isabel Martinez In the opening pages of Lily Wang’s debut novel Silver Repetition, Yué Yué is at the Poetry Jazz Café with her date Johnny, whose friend is in...
The BoulevardJerrod EdsonGalleon Books, 2023 Review by Steven Mayoff On a train trip through Hell’s outer reaches to find Vincent Van Gogh, the Devil tells Ernest Hemingway about when God banished him and his angelic cohort from the vibrant...
HeldAnne MichaelsKnopf, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Anne Michaels’s third novel, Held, is a dizzying marvel of both lyric beauty and structural vision. Equal parts secretive and sincere, Michaels’s latest is ever probing, seeking, as it discovers intimacies that...
Once Upon An Effing TimeBuffy CramDouglas & McIntyre, 2023 Review by Roz Milner There’s a line about the 1960s that says if you can remember it, you weren’t really there. But with that decade more than a half-century in...
Daddy LessonsSteacy EastonCoach House Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner Growing up queer in the Canadian prairies can be hard enough, but for someone who’s neurodivergent, it can be almost impossible to imagine. How does one navigate lines of...
This Time, That PlaceClark BlaiseBiblioasis, 2022 Review by Brandon Fick Who is Clark Blaise? Even some of the biggest literary aficionados may not be able to answer that question, yet This Time, That Place: Selected Stories goes a long...
Her Body Among AnimalsPaola FerranteBook*hug Press, 2023 Review by Deborah Vail “… Kitty was less afraid of the man attacking her than of the people attacking her for being whatshe was, a woman who worked in a bar coming...
The BrickworksLucy E.M. Black Now or Never Publishing, 2023 Review by Hollay Ghadery The challenge with writing historical fiction is not just taking the past and bringing it to life, but making it immediate. As immediate as the page in...