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A Conversation with Michael Mirolla

ORB's John Delacourt spoke to Michael Mirolla in Toronto. The author of a clutch of novels, and short story and poetry collections,...

Rawi Hage speaks to ORB

By Menaka Raman-Wilms The Ottawa Review of Books spoke to Rawi Hage in Toronto last month. Hage’s first two books, De Niro’s Game and...

Nothing to Hide by Nick Simon

Reviewed by Craig A. Smith After a deadly virus in Vancouver, the Canadian government suspends civil rights to ensure the health and...

Ruined Abbey by Anne Emery

Reviewed by Jim Napier It’s April of 1989, and this, the eighth in Anne Emery’s Collins-Burke mystery series, finds Father Brennan Burke...

The Adventures of Claire Never Ending by Catherine Brunelle

Reviewed by Ulrike Durán Bravo Nine chapters, nine women, nine generations. Every single of the nine Claires is so interesting that a...

Ask Me about my Bombshells by Robert Barclay

Reviewed by Alex Binkley Ask Me about my Bombshells blends the basics of fireworks shows, drug dealing, police investigations, protesting...

THE MARCH 2015 ISSUE OF THE OTTAWA REVIEW OF BOOKS

In this issue, the ORB team reviews four recent works of fiction by Robert J. Sawyer, Lisa Moore, Elisabeth Copeland and Rick Blechta,...

Interview with Claire Holden Rothman

by Ian Thomas Shaw The Ottawa Review of Books speaks to Montreal's Claire Holden Rothman, whose first novel, The Heart Specialist, was a...

Caught by Lisa Moore

Review by Menaka Raman-Wilms Caught by Lisa Moore creates a world where anxiety and suspicion are paramount. It begins with David Slaney...

Jazz by Elizabeth Copeland

By Ranga Iyer-Rajah A man is trapped inside a dark haired, beautiful body of a girl. Coming from a traditional and conservative south...

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Robert Runté

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