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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

In Yara, Tamara Faith Berger addresses fraught questions about sexuality, consent, geopolitics, and religion

November 13, 2023November 14, 2023

Yara represents Berger's most fully realized vision yet.

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NovelsThe Horror Show

The Spooky Season: William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist remains one of the most striking, misunderstood 20th century horror novels

October 31, 2023October 31, 2023

Those who view The Exorcist as a frightening and transgressive story about the supernatural may appreciate it on one level, but essentially miss Blatty's point.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Andrew Pyper’s new novel, a short, read-in-one sitting thriller called William, will appear under the pseudonym Mason Coile

October 19, 2023October 19, 2023

"The intent of the book felt very particular."

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

The Spooky Season: Alison Rumfitt’s second novel examines repression and abjection through the lens of extreme body horror

October 18, 2023October 18, 2023

Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

The Spooky Season: The past weighs heavily in a supernaturally inflected first novel from Adriana Chartrand

October 10, 2023October 18, 2023

The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

The Spooky Season: Kathe Koja’s 1991 debut, The Cipher, remains a classic of the horror genre

October 4, 2023October 4, 2023

Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Climate change and political unrest at the end of the world in novels by Tomas Hachard and Michelle Min Sterling

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023

City in Flames and Camp Zero address societal discord via imaginative scenarios that only slightly exaggerated from the evening news.

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NovelsThe Horror Show

Craig DiLouie re-imagines the haunted house story for the reality TV era

August 31, 2023August 31, 2023

DiLouie is clearly a fan of both haunted house stories and found footage movies.

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NovelsThe ColophonWriters and Writing

“That crooked Métis fiddle style”: Michelle Porter discusses the family history and cultural reclamation that went into the creation of her first novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023

The interconnections between the various voices is essential to Porter's approach in the novel.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s novel The Centre serves up a feminist horror story about language and storytelling

July 10, 2023July 24, 2023

The novel parcels out its secrets judiciously, saving the final reveal for the very last sentence.

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