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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Deepti Kapoor’s second novel is a high-octane gangster thriller set in India

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022

Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Madness, mystery, and mathematics combine in a pair of existential inquisitions by Cormac McCarthy

December 13, 2022December 16, 2022

Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.

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CanLitNovelsThe ColophonThe Horror Show

Greek mythology, feminism, and body horror collide in Martine Desjardins’s intriguing Gothic fantasia

November 29, 2022November 30, 2022

By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

In White Resin, Quebec author Audrée Wilhelmy subverts and reimagines classic CanLit tropes

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022

White Resin restores a vision of the Canadian wilderness more in line with Indigenous ideas of a mutually dependent relationship between humanity and the natural environment.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Fawn Parker deconstructs male ego and the image of the great man in literature and academia in two angry, unflinching novels

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

Despite some missteps and shots at easy targets, Parker's novels combine to form a provocative riposte to a culture that valorizes a certain kind of profane masculinity.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

Sympathy for the devils: John Darnielle’s latest novel examines the ethical quagmire of true crime in the context of a taut thriller

April 12, 2022June 14, 2022

Focusing on a writer investigating a double murder with Satanic overtones, the novel asks uncomfortable questions about how and why we consume such gruesome material.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Us vs. the volcano: In their sophomore novel, John Elizabeth Stintzi offers a phantasmagoria of interconnecting stories about climate change and human fallibility

April 1, 2022June 14, 2022

Stintzi’s novel traverses space, time, and a sprawling cast of characters in its attempt to allegorize our most profound challenges in the present.

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