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Lori McNulty’s Life on Mars
Reviewed by Mark Sampson
Reviewed by Mark Sampson
It was author Russell Smith, I think, who made an astute observation in one of his Globe and Mail columns…
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Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau’s Winter Child
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
The death of a child is an experience that most of us—parents especially—cannot bear to imagine, and certainly cannot imagine…
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Gillian Best’s The Last Wave
Reviewed by Rohan Maitzen
Reviewed by Rohan Maitzen
“Why am I here?” John Roberts asks Martha, his wife of over fifty years, as they stand on the rocky…
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Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water
Reviewed by André Forget
Reviewed by André Forget
It would be hard to overstate the chances Marianne Apostolides takes in her new memoir, Deep Salt Water, which twins…
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Dennis Lee’s Heart Residence: Collected Poems 1967–2017
Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
Kingdom of Absence, Dennis Lee’s first book of poetry, was published fifty years ago in 1967 and has never been…
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Pasha Malla’s Fugue States
Reviewed by Alex Good
Reviewed by Alex Good
Fugue States is a real oddity of a novel, but one that makes you wonder how much of its oddness…
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Nick Mount’s Arrival: The Story of CanLit:
Two Views
Two Views
John Metcalf and Fraser Sutherland review Nick Mount’s cultural history of the mid-twentieth-century CanLit boom.
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Guillaume Morissette’s “The Original Face”
Reviewed by Alex Good
Reviewed by Alex Good
Culturally rootless millennials are the focus of Morissette’s funny and perceptive second novel.
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Rebecca Rosenblum’s “So Much Love”
Reviewed by Jeff Bursey
Reviewed by Jeff Bursey
Rosenblum’s first novel mimics the form of her successful short stories; perhaps overly so.
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David Bouchet’s “Sun of a Distant Land”
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
Skilled writing and nuanced characterization feature in David Bouchet’s immigrant tale.