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David Goudreault’s Mama’s Boy
Reviewed by Alex Good
Reviewed by Alex Good
Goudreault’s despicable, politically incorrect antihero pleads his case articulately, and entertainingly.
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Oisín Curran’s Blood Fable
Reviewed by Jesse Eckerlin
Reviewed by Jesse Eckerlin
While burying his cat, Shadow, the protagonist of Blood Fable, an unnamed, precocious boy of eleven, mysteriously claims to remember…
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David Chariandy’s Brother
Reviewed by Emily Donaldson
Reviewed by Emily Donaldson
In the violence-prone suburban Toronto housing complex that serves as the setting for David Chariandy’s Writers’ Trust Prize-winning novel, the…
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Camilla Grudova’s The Doll’s Alphabet
Reviewed by André Forget
Reviewed by André Forget
In his ground-breaking essay on the uncanny, Sigmund Freud describes the phenomenon as “that class of the terrifying which leads…
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Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Square
Reviewed by Alex Good
Reviewed by Alex Good
Authors have various reasons for adopting pseudonyms. One of the more interesting is the bet against celebrity. Stephen King took…
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Benjamin Hertwig’s Slow War and Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis
Reviewed by Domenica Martinello
Reviewed by Domenica Martinello
Hailed as being in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” I imagined that Benjamin Hertwig’s debut, Slow…
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Wajdi Mouawad’s Anima
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
Reviewed by JC Sutcliffe
The third novel by Lebanese-Canadian playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad opens with Wahhch Debch, a Lebanese man now living in…
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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…