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Rob Taylor’s Strangers
by Kevin Spenst
by Kevin Spenst
Rob Taylor’s fourth book of poetry, Strangers, masterfully holds together the contradictions of being fully alive in a world of…
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Casey Plett’s A Dream of a Woman
by Brett Josef Grubisic
by Brett Josef Grubisic
Although the stories of A Dream of a Woman are arresting and captivating, they are disheartening too. From shorter stories…
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Audrée Wilhelmy’s White Resin
by Patricia Robertson
by Patricia Robertson
Audrée Wilhelmy’s audacious novel White Resin is a dark fairy tale, saturated in myth and images of the natural world.…
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Sarah Berman’s Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
by Emily Donaldson
by Emily Donaldson
NXIVM exploded into public consciousness in 2017, when Canadian actress and ex-member Sarah Edmondson revealed she’d been coerced, via kompromat,…
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Andrée A Michaud’s Mirror Lake
by James Grainger
by James Grainger
For those readers not in the know, Andrée Michaud is a Quebecoise author whose novels have been nominated for…
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Patricia Robertson’s Hour of the Crab
by Dancy Mason
by Dancy Mason
Literature that self-consciously explores language is nothing new, but Patricia Robertson manages to articulate her own electrifying turns of phrase…
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Amanda Leduc’s The Centaur’s Wife
by Laura Cameron
by Laura Cameron
When I was young, and an aspiring writer who loved putting words together but often struggled to come up with…
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Carrie Jenkins’ Victoria Sees It
by Paige Cooper
by Paige Cooper
Carrie Jenkins—Cambridge-educated Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and author of three previous books on knowledge of arithmetic, the nature of…
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Pasha Malla’s Kill the Mall
by Alex Good
by Alex Good
Kill the mall? But why, when in the wake of what’s been dubbed the retail apocalypse, the mall is already…
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Anna Porter’s The Appraisal and Deceptions
by Rohan Maitzen
by Rohan Maitzen
“One of the advantages of a lifetime spent among tigers is that you are not disappointed when they act like…