In Sickness and In Health by Nora Gold
Reviewed by Jerry Levy In Sickness and In Health is the second of Gold's two novellas published as a flip-book by Guernica Editions. Last...
Welcome to ORB's February 2024 Issue
After a refreshing winter hiatus, the Ottawa Review of Books is back to bring you, our readers, insights into five new Canadian books. In...
Allegiance by Michael Springate
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Written as a sequel to The Beautiful West & The Beloved of God, Michael Springate’s newest novel is a...
Yom Kippur in a Gym by Nora Gold
Reviewed by Jerry Levy Some of literature’s most enduring and beloved stories include Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Ernest Hemingway’s...
On Community by Casey Plett
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann This book begins with two encounters author Casey Plett experienced. In the first, Plett returned after...
Authorized Cruelty by Janice Barrett
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray In her debut novel, Barrett’s impeccable research, in particular Matthew Connelly’s, The Declassification...
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol.1 (2023)
Reviewed by Robert Runté When John Robert Columbo came out with the first anthology of Canadian speculative fiction, Other Canadas, in...
Season's Greetings ORB December 2023 Issue
As 2023 draws to a close, we at the Ottawa Review of Books wish you the very best for the holiday season. We will be taking a short break...
The Black State by John Delacourt
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw In his latest novel, The Black State, John Delacourt achieves what many American and British authors have...
The Future by Catherine Leroux
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann What if the city of Detroit, Michigan, founded by French explorer Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac,...