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Welcome to ORB's October 2023 Issue

October in Canada is a great time to curl up with a new book and gaze out the window at the kaleidoscope of Fall colours. In this issue,...

Catinat Boulevard by Caroline Vu

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann The Vietnam War (1964–1975) still casts a long shadow. While it wasn’t the US’s longest war (that dubious...

All the World's a Mall by Rinny Gremaud

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Rinny Gremaud's first book, All the World's a Mall, masterfully translated from French by Luise von Flotow,...

The Art of Libromancy by Josh Cook

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann This collection of essays is both a hard read and a necessary one. Hard, because he is mostly talking...

All that Glitters by Mike Martin

Reviewed by Jim Napier Canadian novelist Mike Martin is well known for his distinctive series of stories set in the small community of...

Welcome to ORB's September 2023 issue

With this issue, the Ottawa Review of Books begins its tenth year of service to Canada's literary community. It has been a ride, with...

An Evil Tale I Heard by Seán Haldane

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw The inspiration for founding the Ottawa Review of Books in September 2014 came from reading The Devil’s...

The Country of Toó by Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Rodrigo Rey Rosa left his native Guatemala in 1979, when he was only twenty-one. But his roots in the...

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Jerry Levy

Gail M. Murray

Timothy Niedermann

Robert Runté

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