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The Diamond House by Dianne Warren
Dianne Warren’s most recent novel The Diamond House is quietly addictive. Her portrayal of an entrepreneurial, working-class family in Saskatchewan is deliciously compelling and uncannily realistic, particularly if you’re from the prairie province. Reading The Diamond...
My Heart is a Rose Manhattan by Nikki Reimer
By the third line of the first poem in My Heart is a Rose Manhattan, Nikki Reimer writes that her new work, this work, “is grief.” It is a grief that she will acknowledge again in the closing lines of that poem when she apologizes for both her grief and her new work....
Biblioasis’s 2020 A Ghost Story for Christmas Collection
Biblioasis and famous Canadian cartoonist Seth, kept their holiday tradition alive by once again releasing three ghost stories for Christmas. Taking a break from publishing mostly Victorian era ghost stories, two of this year’s offerings are a little closer to the...
Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch & Mistatim (concept by Sarah Laronde) and Instant by Erin Shields
Hanna Moscovitch’s impressive beginning as a playwright with East of Berlin, The Russian Play, and Little One has not been fulfilled, or at best, fitfully so. With these plays, perhaps especially East of Berlin, she seemed capable of anything with her dramatic...
Arborescent by Marc Herman Lynch
Marc Herman Lynch’s debut novel, Arborescent, is a magical romp through a strangely familiar world. The novel is set in a fictional version of Calgary called Moh’kins’tsis, which isn’t a made up name or place at all, but the traditional Blackfoot name for the region....
Want by Barbara Langhorst
It’s an odd experience, reading a novel about apocalyptic fears during a pandemic. A few chapters into Want, the debut novel by Saskatchewan writer Barbara Langhorst, the narrator’s brother launches into an impassioned rant about the dangers of the current world....