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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Future (un)certain: An unconventional POV undercuts the emotional force in Jean-Phillippe Baril Guérard’s You Crushed It

April 29, 2025April 30, 2025

You Crushed ItJean-Phillippe Baril Guérard; Neil Smith, trans.Book*hug Press There’s a reason novelists don’t often employ the future tense. Humans,...

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

“Anyhow, he gives large parties”: On the centenary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

April 24, 2025April 24, 2025

In Gatsby, we find the apotheosis of Fitzgerald's novelistic voice.

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“I authentically admire his legacy”: Sash Bischoff on how F. Scott Fitzgerald influenced her debut novel, Sweet Fury

April 15, 2025April 16, 2025

"I sort of lucked into the idea that Fitzgerald should be a part of this book."

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Casualties of war: Poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek’s debut novel focuses on the girls kidnapped by the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army

March 11, 2025March 11, 2025

Otok Bitek uses local folklore as a metaphorical way of bringing the girls' experience into relief.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

In Clay McLeod Chapman’s savage new novel, digital wellness gurus and a far-right news channel serve as linchpins for the apocalypse

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025

Chapman's book is about as far from subtle as it's possible to get.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

Hildur Knútsdóttir’s psychological horror story The Night Guest uses spare language and elision to heighten the feeling of creeping dread

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025

Knútsdóttir places the reader in close proximity to Iðunn's psyche via an unreliable first-person narration.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Working blue: In her sophomore novel, Brittany Newell probes the limits of desire and loneliness

February 6, 2025February 28, 2025

Newell unfolds a tale that is, in places, almost unbearably sad in its portrayal of contemporary anomie.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

In author and bookseller Jenny Kiefer’s debut novel, four hikers discover horror in the Kentucky wilderness

January 21, 2025January 22, 2025

For those looking for a solid throwback to the great pulp horror novels of the ’80s, this one is a good bet.

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Rise of the machines: Nnedi Okorafor’s metafictional postapocalypse is surpassingly depressing

January 16, 2025February 3, 2025

Okorafor does not miss a single opportunity to critique the contemporary media establishment.

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The dogs of war: Christopher Bollen’s latest novel is a deliriously vicious, ferociously entertaining read

December 20, 2024December 20, 2024

Bollen has concocted a scenario that deftly upends traditional power structures.

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