Craig DiLouie re-imagines the haunted house story for the reality TV era
DiLouie is clearly a fan of both haunted house stories and found footage movies.
“That crooked Métis fiddle style”: Michelle Porter discusses the family history and cultural reclamation that went into the creation of her first novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story
The interconnections between the various voices is essential to Porter's approach in the novel.
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s novel The Centre serves up a feminist horror story about language and storytelling
The novel parcels out its secrets judiciously, saving the final reveal for the very last sentence.
The fight of their lives: In the debut novel by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, prisoners battle to the death on an extreme-sports reality TV show
One of satire's great attributes is its ability to turn its spotlight on its recipient.
David C.C. Burgeois’s debut novel, about an indenture with ties to William Shakespeare, is a stylistic mashup that may suffer from too many notes
The core of the novel has a propulsion and a dramatic weight that works in its favour.
Sex, religion, and family collide in Liz Harmer’s sublime second novel, Strange Loops
If there is a God hovering over Harmer's narrative, it is of the Old Testament variety.
In Letters to Little Comrade, Dan K. Woo offers a satirical, ultimately tragic view of womanhood in modern China
The brief novel's overall structure is frequently at odds with the specificity of the narrative that is unfolding.
A new biography of Mickey Spillane makes the case for the late pulp novelist’s ongoing importance
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction provides a thoughtful overview of the man and his work.
Violet Browne talks about Newfoundland’s influence, fragmenting fiction, and the real-life origins of her debut novel
"I think Quebec is Newfoundland writ large because we do have our own culture and that is so tied up in the language."
In The Fake, Zoe Whittall takes a blisteringly funny look at con artists and the people they target
Very much in the spirit of a good grift, the novel lures us in willingly before snatching all our assurances away from us.