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Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter
by Kate Kennedy
by Kate Kennedy
Suzette Mayr’s new novel captures long-distance train travel in all its picturesque, cramped, and crumb-strewn glory.
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Saleema Nawaz’s Songs for the End of the World
by Mark Sampson
by Mark Sampson
It’s exceedingly difficult to discuss Saleema Nawaz’s new work of fiction outside of the context in which it was published.
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Morgan Murray’s Dirty Birds
by Tom Halford
by Tom Halford
The Canadian Künstlerroman, or artist novel, has a strange history, and Morgan Murray’s debut novel, Dirty Birds, skews that tradition even further.
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Catherine Hernandez’s Crosshairs
by Steacy Easton
by Steacy Easton
As much as it pretends to be about the future, or other worlds, dystopian science fiction is almost always about…
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Jaspreet Singh’s Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene
by Jeff Bursey
by Jeff Bursey
Narrators completely assured of their moral compass and high intelligence, whatever their gender or background, are insufferable.
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Exhumations: Marshmallow Magic
by Stephen Fowler
by Stephen Fowler
Marshmallow Magic is a guide to a previously unrecorded Canadian artform: diminutive sculptures constructed from marshmallows and buttercream icing. Though…
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Mike Steeves’ Bystander
by Sadie Graham
by Sadie Graham
At the beginning of Bystander, Mike Steeves’ sophomore novel, the as-yet unnamed narrator makes a call to his parents. He’s…
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S. D. Chrostowska’s The Eyelid
by Jeff Bursey
by Jeff Bursey
Early in The Eyelid, a work wrapped in the silk of sleep and arms of ice, Chevauchet, the Ambassador of…
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Martha Schabas’ My Face in the Light
by Brett Josef Grubisic
by Brett Josef Grubisic
With the bracing first paragraph of My Face in the Light, I anticipated an intense and darkly surreal tale that…
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Hal Niedzviecki’s The Lost Expert
by Alex Good
by Alex Good
A few years ago, in a review of Maureen Medved’s Black Star, I observed how a lot of women in Canadian novels were going insane in eerily similar ways.