Ottawa Author Alan Cumyn
Interviewed by Menaka Raman-Wilms Ottawa Review of Books' Menaka Raman-Wilms spoke this month with Alan Cumyn, one of Ottawa's most...
The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee
Reviewed by Dessa Bayrock There are two dead girls curled in the giant chest freezers in Jessica Campbell's childhood home. It's an...
Stranger by David Bergen
Reviewed by Menaka Raman-Wilms David Bergen’s latest novel, Stranger, is compelling and immersive. It’s the story of Íso, a young woman...
The Museum at the End of the World by John Metcalf
Reviewed by John Delacourt “Our reviews have become, at their worst, about the revelation of the reviewer’s opinion, not about a...
Beach Kill by Phyllis Smallman
Reviewed by Jim Napier Canadian crime writer Phyllis Smallman recently released Beach Kill, her newest novel in the Singer Brown series....
Life and Bronze by Ruth Abernethy
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Large format “coffee table” books have a bad habit of ending up lying in decorative stacks at strategic...
Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
Reviewed by Lesley Caple As Canada will celebrates its 150th anniversary since Confederation, it is worth recalling the contributions of...
Psychomachia by Sanita Fejzic
Reviewed by Ranga Rajah Sixty seconds is all it takes for lives to change, and forever. It's the time that most of us take to stare at a...