Peter Unwin’s new novel, Searching for Petronius Totem, is a grand and bewildering off-road trip into Canadian weirdness. A dystopian kitchen sink domestic drama by way of private-eye-era noir, [...]
Suzette Mayr’s new novel is a rollicking satire of academic life set in a fictional (but oddly familiar) western Canadian university called Inivea. The title character confesses her misguided [...]
Certain historical events—particularly those where someone sins and someone is sinned against—draw novelists as magnets draw iron filings. In Canada, the misnamed Riel Rebellion of 1885, the [...]
