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Haze of self-analysis drifts through Daniel Zomparelli's Everything Is Awful

Set primarily in Vancouver’s West End, the book is a kind of generational snapshot—an unapologetically urban-gay-male-centric updating of Douglas Coupland’s Shampoo Planet.

Carleigh Baker creates Bad Endings out of flawed human nature

Between the first and last tales in this debut collection, the author nimbly switches tone and focus.

Threats multiply in the dark future of Claudia Casper's Mercy Journals

Despite its postcataclysmic setting, the Vancouver author's third novel feels closer in spirit to an intimate play about relationships.

Twisted comic paths lead to Greg Hollingshead's Act Normal

Hollingshead exhibits a wonderful restlessness, eager to seek out the shadows and odd pockets of the everyday.

Eulogy explores a damaged past

This debut novel by the Ontario-based writer is a masterpiece of half-truths, understatement, and ironies.

Humour and grief flicker through Priscila Uppal's Cover Before Striking

The Toronto-based poet and novelist pinpoints moments of levity and anguish as survivors strive to make peace with unchanging brute fact.

Angie Abdou’s Between thrives on domestic culture clash

The Fernie-based author's new novel offers an alluring study in contrasts.

Ellen in Pieces traces a heart dented by experience

Ellen in Pieces showcases Caroline Adderson’s mastery of language, tone, and storytelling as she turns her empathetic gaze to a messy, cut-short life of contradictions, missteps,...