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.
“Maybe writers have our own separate hell”: Lindsay Wong talks about villain hitting, corpse marriage, and her debut novel
"Villain hitting is what women do when they have no choice."
Hot for teacher: Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel, about a high-school student’s affair with her creative writing instructor, intends to provoke
McCurdy's method is predicated upon an ironic distance between Waldo's narration and the reader's ability to see through it.
A deal with the Devil: How a ninety-year-old novel from a Nobel Prize winner’s son maps onto our current political moment
Mann's novel closely mines the contradictions in his protagonist's character.
Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.