

Interview with Elaine Kennedy
This month, Ottawa Review of Books' Caroline Vu interviews Montreal translator Elaine Kennedy about her first novel translation, This...


Welcome to ORB's Christmas Issue
Season's Greetings from the Ottawa Review of Books. Are you looking for some great books to buy for your friends and family? We hope so....


Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
Reviewed by Jim Napier Just in time for Christmas, a new novel by Louise Penny for her many fans. Winter has come to Three Pines, and...


A Beckoning War by Matthew Murphy
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw A novel on the Second World War in 2018 may seem a little anachronistic—hasn't everything worth saying been...


The Pink House and Other Stories by Licia Canton
Reviewed by Anna Foschi Ciampolini A traumatic real-life experience provides the main inspiration for The Pink House and Other Stories,...


Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Vicious bikers. The Irish mob. A family of squatters. A clever police detective. Death Count 26. Some landscapes...


A Season Among Psychics by Elizabeth Greene
Reviewed by Ursula Pflug A Season Among Psychics is a novel but would also do well in the Spirituality section of the bookstore. It's a...


The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken
Reviewed by Benoit Chartier Belisarius Arjona is a quantum man, or homo quantus. He's the product of eleven generations of genetic...


It's Not The End, And Other Lies by Matt Moore
Reviewed by Benoit Chartier In his collection of short stories, It's Not The End, And Other Lies, author Matt Moore takes us on a...


Welcome to ORB's Frosty November Issue
Even when November's sun is low and Winter flaps his fleecy wings, Thy gold among his silvery snow a solace in the sadness brings. --...




