Review by Lesley Finn Pax by Sara Pennypacker Harper Collins, 2016 In the opening pages of Sara Pennypacker’s new novel, twelve-year-old Peter plays fetch with his pet in the woods. The idyll is all artifice: this is a scene...
Review by Will Preston The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Little, Brown and Company, 2016 Some years ago, on the southwestern tip of England, I stumbled across a little stone chapel overlooking the sea. It was a gorgeous,...
Review by Anjalika Samarasekera The Heaviness of Things that Float by Jennifer Manuel Douglas & McIntyre, 2016 The cover of Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things that Float, depicts two seashells attempting a yin yang configuration. The...
Interview by Robert Shaw Daniel Perry’s debut short fiction collection, Hamburger (Thistledown Press) was released this spring. With its impressive ability to seamlessly move between flash and prose pieces, the collection explores both the humour and poignancy of contemporary...
Review by Francine Cunningham Faerie by Eisha Marjara Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Faerie, by Montreal filmmaker Eisha Marjara is a Young Adult (YA) novel that tackles tough issues head on and does not back down from the reality of...
Photo Credit: Owen Leong Interview by Christopher Evans Tom Cho’s current project is a novel with the working title The Meaning of Life and Other Fictions. His full-length debut was Look Who’s Morphing, a collection of fictions released by...
Interview by Matthew Walsh Amber McMillan’s recent collection of poetry, We Can’t Ever Do This Again was released with Wolsak and Wynn last year. Split into three sections, the poems cover a lot of emotional ground. It’s easy to...
Review by Sarah Higgins I Want to Tell You Something by Caroline Sniatynski rEvolver Festival, The Cultch I want to tell you that as I made my way into the Founder’s Lounge at The Cultch for Caroline Sniatynski’s one...
Review by Kyla Jamieson even this page is white by Vivek Shraya Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya’s impressive body of work includes multiple albums, films, and books. Her debut novel, She of the Mountains, was...