The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.
Deepti Kapoor’s second novel is a high-octane gangster thriller set in India
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.
Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland
"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."
Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era
Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.
Madness, mystery, and mathematics combine in a pair of existential inquisitions by Cormac McCarthy
Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.
Greek mythology, feminism, and body horror collide in Martine Desjardins’s intriguing Gothic fantasia
By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.
In White Resin, Quebec author Audrée Wilhelmy subverts and reimagines classic CanLit tropes
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.
Fawn Parker deconstructs male ego and the image of the great man in literature and academia in two angry, unflinching novels
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.
Sympathy for the devils: John Darnielle’s latest novel examines the ethical quagmire of true crime in the context of a taut thriller
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.
Us vs. the volcano: In their sophomore novel, John Elizabeth Stintzi offers a phantasmagoria of interconnecting stories about climate change and human fallibility
Stintzi’s novel traverses space, time, and a sprawling cast of characters in its attempt to allegorize our most profound challenges in the present.