Review by Deborah Vail Wrist by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler Kegedonce Press, 2016 Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is a writer and artist who works in many forms including audio, paint, film and glass. He is currently a candidate for...
Review by Stefanie Bartlett Straight to the Head by Fraser Nixon Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Fraser Nixon’s Straight to the Head is a neo-noir that follows a cast of stylish, offbeat characters into the dirty underbelly of 1980’s Vancouver,...
Review by Sarah Higgins The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe by Thomas Monckton The Cultch Theatre always has a little magic in it—the lights, the shared space, the worlds created onstage. But Thomas Monckton and Circo...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt Life in the Court of Matane Eric Dupont Peter McCambridge, translation QC Fiction, 2015 Eric Dupont’s Life in the Court of Matane, a reflection on a forty-year-old man’s unsettled childhood, begins with a leap:...
Interview by Anjalika Samarasekera Heather O’Neill is the bestselling, Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels. Her fourth work of fiction, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, is forthcoming from...
Review by Will Preston What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Penguin Random House, 2016 Late in Helen Oyeyemi’s beguiling new collection of stories, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a character becomes obsessed with...
Review by Wendy Bone Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson ARP Books, 2016 Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love arrived in the post on a day when I was feeling edgy about the sorry state of the world,...
Review by Francine Cunningham Birdie by Tracey Lindberg HarperCollins Canada, 2016 Birdie, written by first-time novelist Tracey Lindberg, citizen of the As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and hailing from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation, tells the story of...
Review by Kyle Schoenfeld The Mercy Journals Claudia Casper Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 As with any book imagining a future world, Claudia Casper’s The Mercy Journals threads its way between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia. It’s impossible to...