
by Brad de Roo
Kevin Chong’s Vancouver-set, Camus-inspired novel uses dark humour to tap into present-day cultural anxieties.
Kevin Chong’s Vancouver-set, Camus-inspired novel uses dark humour to tap into present-day cultural anxieties.
Journalist Elaine Dewar’s The Handover looks at the truth behind the sale of M&S, Canada’s best independent publisher, to foreign multinational Random House.
Linda Spalding’s “A Reckoning” follows the fortunes of a slave-owning family in 1850s Virginia after a visit from a Canadian abolitionist on the eve of the Civil War.
Journalist Tanya Talaga’s new book probes the deaths of seven Indigenous high-school students in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
A planned utopia stumbles up against human nature in Alison Pick’s third novel about the founding of the kibbutz movement in 1920s Palestine.
“The work of mourning doesn’t count—at least in contemporary North American culture—as “work.” Though, I suggest that grieving actually is some of the hardest work we are consigned to do.”
“Given that I see and experience the world only from the perspective of my own tiny-skull-sized kingdom, reading a novel is the closest I’ve come to feeling the experience of someone else.”
“Mars became a metaphor for the act of writing itself — venturing toward a truth, a compelling intuition, a distant heartbeat…”
Described as a cross between Room and Olive Kitteridge, Rebecca Rosenblum’s first novel, So Much Love (McClelland & Stewart) focuses on the…