Review by Andrea Westcott U Girl by Meredith Quartermain Talonbooks, 2016 As a meta-narrative about the process of writing a novel, U Girl succeeds because novelist Meredith Quartermain has already thought through the writing process, so that her narrator...
Review by Will Preston Evicted by Matthew Desmond Penguin Random House, 2016 Right now, as you read this sentence, somebody in the United States is being evicted. Most likely they’re black; most likely they’re a woman. Most likely it’s...
Review by Mark Cutts Suite Française: Storm in June by Emmanuel Moynot David Homel, translation Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015 Emmanuel Moynot’s graphic novel Suite Française: Storm in June follows four sets of people as they flee Paris and the...
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 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:...
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...