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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

In The Fake, Zoe Whittall takes a blisteringly funny look at con artists and the people they target

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023

Very much in the spirit of a good grift, the novel lures us in willingly before snatching all our assurances away from us.

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Love and grief are the enduring forces in Violet Browne’s debut novel

February 22, 2023February 22, 2023

This Is the House That Luke Built is a strong first novel, clearly adept at marrying its form and content.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Fable and allegory combine in Victory City, Salman Rushdie’s masterful new novel

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Laconic prose and a highly unreliable narrator characterize the first new novel from Bret Easton Ellis in more than a decade

February 2, 2023February 3, 2023

The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.

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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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