Welcome to ORB’s Easter 2021 Issue
Ottawa’s warm days of spring offer some relief to the city’s much-beleaguered denizens, now going through a second Easter weekend under...
Fuse by Hollay Ghadery
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Fuse Author Hollay Ghadery is the daughter of an Iranian father and a Canadian mother of English descent....
Life in the Court of Matane by Éric Dupont
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Published in French as Bestiaire in 2008 and first translated into English in 2016, the second edition of...
Murder on the Orford Mountain Railway by Nick Fonda
Reviewed by Jim Napier In August 1905 in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, the Orford Mountain Railway is being extended, and a...
Water Sight by Marie Powell
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin An evocative epic laced with myth and fact, Water Sight completes the Last of the Gifted Series. In the first...
Clockwork, Curses, and Coal edited by Rhonda Parrish
Reviewed by Robert Runté Rhonda Parrish is perhaps Canada’s best-known and most prolific speculative fiction anthologist. By my count,...
Spring is in the Air - ORB's March Issue
The smell of Spring is in our northern air although a carpet of thick pristine snow still covers the land. There's still time to enjoy a...
Letters from Johnny by Wayne Ng
Reviewed by Marc Brown Despite our best intentions, judging a book by its cover is often inevitable. In the case of Wayne Ng’s Letters...
Choosing Eleonore by Andrée A. Gratton
Reviewed by Anna Dowdall Choosing Eleonore, by Montreal philosophy professor and novelist Andrée A. Gratton, is a little gem of a...
The Speed of Mercy by Christy Ann Conlin
Reviewed by Christopher Margeson There’s a bit of local lore in Nova Scotia which claims that, try as you might, you will never get more...
