Book Features Our book critics weigh in with 2016 picks Regular contributors to the Straight’s books section do their level best to boil down another fine year into one title each.
Book Reviews Emma Cline’s Girls pursued by murderous past Girls will be girls, even when they’re part of the brainwashed coterie of a homicidal cult leader.
Book Reviews Carmen Aguirre’s latest memoir plumbs the depths of life-changing violence This deep, soul-searching book reveals the guts it took for the author to become a real artist.
Book Features Lindy West sharpens comic edge to slice through taboo The outspoken Seattle author and columnist is a funny woman. Let’s not fight about it, Twitter!
Book Features Fraser Nixon's novel Straight to the Head revels in laid-back noir This clever, stylish, and funny tale of stolen drugs and crooked cops takes place in Vancouver in 1983 and 1986.
Book Features Our critics round up this year's outstanding books The Straight’s regular books-section contributors take a crack at the crazy-making task of narrowing 2015’s field down to one title each.
Book Features Patrick deWitt dreams up the past in black comedy Undermajordomo Minor Sometimes you’ve gotta give up to get ahead.
Book Reviews Elena Ferrante makes a fierce return with The Story of the Lost Child “Hotly anticipated” might be an understatement when it comes to the final book in enigmatic Italian author Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan tetralogy.
Book Reviews Irina Kovalyova tells stories with scientific precision in Specimen Specimen’s original, odd, and compelling mix of sci-fi–flavoured literature proves Kovalyova’s experiment a significant one that surely deserves further testing.
Book Reviews Aleksandar Hemon's The Making of Zombie Wars flaunts an apocalyptic sense of humour The Making of Zombie WarsBy Aleksandar Hemon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pp, hardcover