Every author has a verb. Munro dazzles, Morrison provokes, Atwood survives. Tim Bowling, quite simply, writes. The man’s laptop doubles as a conveyor belt; to date (and I may already be behind by [...]
Gisèle Villeneuve’s works straddle languages, informed by her native Montreal and by Alberta, where she has lived for nearly 40 years. Her last novel, Visiting Elizabeth, was a hybrid [...]
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 [...]
