Steven Price’s By Gaslight (2016)

2021-06-04T14:59:55-04:00

Steven Price began as a poet, so the hype surrounding his new novel, By Gaslight, must have been disconcerting. But that's appropriate, because it is intended to be a disconcerting story. McClelland & Stewart - PRH, 2016 The majority of readers probably won't be interested in either the rumours surrounding

Steven Price’s By Gaslight (2016)2021-06-04T14:59:55-04:00

Soraya Peerbaye’s Tell (2015)

2016-11-10T08:43:37-05:00

Poems for a Girlhood, it's subtitled. But it's actually for girlhoods. For the author's. And Reena Virk's. At least, for what of Reena Virk's girlhood is known and what can be imagined. She was murdered on November 14, 1997 when she was fourteen years old. At least eight teenagers participated in her

Soraya Peerbaye’s Tell (2015)2016-11-10T08:43:37-05:00

Reasons to read Gary Barwin’s Yiddish for Pirates (2016)

2017-07-20T17:43:35-04:00

For a love of birds with wings, especially parrots. "But what did happen to Adam and Eve? Did they hollow out the Tree of Knowledge, make a canoe and then paddle east to Europe? Fnyeh. Not these Heyerdahls. But, if there ever were an Adam and Eve, who knows where they

Reasons to read Gary Barwin’s Yiddish for Pirates (2016)2017-07-20T17:43:35-04:00

Luisgé Martín’s The Same City (2013; 2015)

2016-11-10T07:20:56-05:00

It doesn't happen everyday: a single book resulting in a new reading resolution. Even the idea of it is somehow misleading, isn't it? Because in the life of a voracious reader, is it possible to isolate a single reading experience and claim it as the genesis of a change in

Luisgé Martín’s The Same City (2013; 2015)2016-11-10T07:20:56-05:00

Page-turners and other gripping reads

2020-10-01T12:57:47-04:00

What's interesting about each of these novels is that none fits a traditional model in the suspense genre. Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door is the closest to a conventional thriller. But even her novel spends more time on characterization and atmosphere than many loyal genre readers would tolerate. Nonetheless, she

Page-turners and other gripping reads2020-10-01T12:57:47-04:00
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