Brief encounters: “Growing Things” by Paul Tremblay
Tremblay's entire fiction is built on contingency and ambiguity.
Alice Munro’s debut collection, newly reissued, demonstrates an artist fully formed from the start
The stories in Dance of the Happy Shades establish many of the characteristics that would come to be associated with Munro's oeuvre.
The debut novel from Montreal author Nour Abi-Nakhoul is an hallucinatory descent into existential horror
Ontological queries pervade the novel, which is, at least in part, about the inability to outrun violence or harmful past experience.
Celebrated Michif author katherena vermette joins Simon & Schuster Canada in the role of senior editor
"Historically underserved communities are home to some of our greatest literary talent," vermette says in a statement.
The new novel from Joyce Carol Oates is a Boschian descent into the mind of a deluded surgeon who runs a New Jersey asylum for women
On balance, Butcher is a savage literary provocation.
A writer’s pursuit of her latest subject leads to unexpected places in Lisa Tuttle’s uncanny novella
The unease that creeps into this story is not overwhelming, but unnerving in its very ordinariness.
A story that began life on Reddit becomes one of the most original, nerve-shattering horror novels in memory
The plot, which unfolds at a frantic pace, comes to resemble an M.C. Escher sketch.
In Consent, Montreal-born author Jill Ciment revisits her earlier book to raise questions about the memoir as a vessel for truth telling
Ciment does not ultimately answer any questions, content to let her reader sit with them.
Can’t start a fire without a spark: Steven Hyden’s examines the legacy of Bruce Springsteen’s most popular album
Hyden's book reads a bit like a requiem for a more innocent time.
Longtime books editor Deborah Dundas moves to opinion at the Toronto Star
Dundas remains devoted to writing and publishing and intends to use her experience as a springboard in her new position.