Josh Silver’s debut novel for adults does double duty as a dark thriller and a satire of the modern publishing industry
This is a book readers should approach with caution.
Vanishing acts: Marlon James’s sprawling sixth novel examines the ways gay men are erased from society
There is little doubt that The Disappearers is a very good book.
Attend the tale: Caroline Glenn’s debut novel is a slick, sick satire that wears its influences on its sleeve
Glenn proves sharply observant about the acquisitive, beauty-obsessed milieu crammed with influencers and people jockeying to be the next big thing.
Ol’ blue eyes: Monika Kim’s debut novel is a grotesque howl of Asian feminist rage
Kim's novel goes to some undeniably dark places.
Margaret Sweatman’s seventh novel is a thoughtful and nuanced incursion into late capitalism
Sweatman has created a vivid critique of industrial expansion that has demonstrable negative effects on an individual, societal, and environmental level.
The side of the angels: Sharon Bala’s second novel examines the conflicted motives of a struggling NGO
What Bala provides in Good Guys is a master class in irony.
“Computers and cellphones have ruined fiction and movies”: Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson on historical Toronto, James Earl Ray, and his new novel
Stefanovich-Thomson's writing has been described as "maple noir."
The old ballgame: Three Canadian writers find ongoing fascination in the sport of baseball
Forbes's book provides a useful bridging text between those of Mooney and Smith.
The lies have it: Two new debut novels showcase unreliable narrators
Whereas Novack lets her narrator's duplicity bleed through in the way the book is structured, Lucy, the woman at the centre of Taff's novel, tells us she's lying right up front.
A puppet’s life: The debut novel from Hollay Ghadery features a highly unusual narrator
Technically, Ghadery's novel follows the Aristotelian unities of time, space, and action.