This novel includes a frank and important discussion of emotional relationship abuse. How do you fit a hunky construction worker back into the closet? Very carefully. Todd is recently brokenhearted, out of a tough relationship, and in... Read More

Chin takes aim at factions on the left and the right as they confront the topic of European multiculturalism. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the triumph of capitalism seemed to signal a flowering of democratic possibilities across... Read More

What haunts most about the novel is the tacit understanding that everything must change. From acclaimed French novelist Michel Déon comes the fictional memoir of Édouard, the only child of a middle-class couple. Translated by Julian... Read More

Foor presents a sensible case for the positive benefits associated with ancestral contact. As a teenager, Daniel Foor experienced “contact with nonphysical beings or spirits.” Rather than dismiss the experience as unreal, he pursued... Read More

Levez’s style is lyrical, infusing the story with atmosphere and emotion. Olivia Levez’s "The Circus" tells the story of Willow, a young woman whose wealthy father gives her everything she could ask for, except for the one thing she... Read More

Hardcastle’s descriptions possess an elegant choreography that is vivid, energetic, and well-paced. Kevin Hardcastle, whose story collection Debris won the Trillium Book Award, continues to explore small-town Ontario life in his moody,... Read More

These novellas probe the complexities of modern love and the work that is required to sustain it. Beautiful and heartbreaking, Where the Survivors are Buried, by Nava Renek, is a poignant exploration of everlasting love. Containing two... Read More

The novel offers doses of thrills, intrigue, oddball characters, and a splash of romance for those who like their fiction weird. An ironic moment of serendipity brings two strange people together in "The Professor and the Suicide Girl",... Read More