It is heating up in the Nation’s capital, and so are Canadian authors and translators! In this issue of the Ottawa Review of Books, our core team offers you their insights into Lewis Evans’ The Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse, Shawn Bird’s Murdering Mr. Edwards, Melissa Yi’s The Shapes of Wrath, Cherie Dimaline’s VenCo and Luise von Flotow’s translation of the classic novel The World at My Back by German author Thomas Melle.