Underneath your virtual Christmas tree, you will find five brand-new reviews from the Ottawa Review of Books. ORB core reviewers Timothy Niedermann, Wendy Hawkins, Gail M. Murray and Robert Runté have got together to offer four fiction reviews and one non-fiction review. In this issue, read ORB's insights into the works of Geza Tatrallyay, Dietrich Kalteis and Lisa Rochon, the 2019 Munk Debate on the Future of Capitalism and a Christmas thriller anthology edited by M.L.D. Curelas.