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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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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Power plays: Julia May Jonas addresses issues of on-campus sexual politics in her provocative and incendiary debut novel

March 22, 2022June 14, 2022

Jonas constructs a narrative that examines campus power dynamics frankly without, for the most part, providing any tidy moral or lesson.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

AI, AI, oh: In their second novel, Victoria Hetherington examines ontological questions about subjectivity and personhood

February 17, 2022June 14, 2022

The novel, about a sentient AI that develops a relationship with a university therapist, examines ontological questions about what it is that makes us human.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Ship of fools: Will Aitken skewers late-capitalism and upper-class pretension in The Swells

January 26, 2022June 14, 2022

With not one but two pirate incursions, a mutiny, and other onboard shenanigans, the novel offers a fast, noisy narrative.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Where I’m calling from: Dimitri Nasrallah mines the immigrant experience for his new novel, Hotline

January 21, 2022June 14, 2022

Set in Montreal during the 1980s, the novel outlines the full range of the immigrant experience, from heartache to hope.

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CanLitNovelsPublishingThe Colophon

Debut novel from Camilla Grudova sold to Atlantic

January 19, 2022June 14, 2022

Grudova’s previous collection of short fiction was delightfully strange; the new novel appears to continue in this vein.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

The death, rebirth, and afterlife of the author in Naben Ruthnum’s A Hero of Our Time

January 12, 2022June 14, 2022

In his debut literary novel under his own name, Ruthnum provides a slippery, serpentine narrative that calls into question notions of identity and narrative stability.

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