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.
Love and grief are the enduring forces in Violet Browne’s debut novel
This Is the House That Luke Built is a strong first novel, clearly adept at marrying its form and content.
Fable and allegory combine in Victory City, Salman Rushdie’s masterful new novel
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
Laconic prose and a highly unreliable narrator characterize the first new novel from Bret Easton Ellis in more than a decade
The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.
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.