

February 2022 Ottawa Review of Books
If you live in Ottawa, you might feel under siege these days as the downtown core is a pandemonium of diesel fumes, truck horns, scruffy...


Serving Life by Richard King
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Serving Life by the late Richard King will be released on April 1, 2022 by Baraka Books. It is the third –...


Fear the Mirror by Cora Siré
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Already the author of two novels and two collections of poetry, Montreal writer Cora Siré has now turned...


Waswanipi by Jean-Yves Soucy
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Occasionally, there is a book that brings back memories locked away in an earlier life. So was it when I...


White Lightning by Melissa Yi
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin What do you get when you cross an emergency-room doctor with an award-winning novelist? An insanely-twisted...


ORB January 2022 Issue is Here!
The Ottawa Review of Books sincerely hopes that you have made a New Year's resolution to read some fine Canadian fiction in 2022. There...


April on Paris Street by Anna Dowdall
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Perhaps, the most striking element of Anna Dowdall’s April on Paris Street is her prose, which is of a...


Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Cherie Dimaline never intended to write a sequel to her dystopian novel, The Marrow Thieves, but after earning...


Seven Down by David Whitton
Reviewed by Jim Napier This month, a change of pace. Canadian crime writer David Whitton draws on previous literary efforts by others...


The Deer Yard and Other Stories by Tom Mahoney
Reviewed by Robert Runté When my mom was in her nineties, I tried to record some of her family’s history. I would ask about, say, a...