Book Reviews
In The Desert by Barbara Byar
Five childhood friends come of age in a small desert town. Over the course of 24 hours, a series of catastrophes across time and space, lead to a phone booth in the middle of nowhere, ringing…
The Guest by Emma Cline
During a rapidly fading summer on Long Island, The Guest follows grifter Alex as she tries to survive the week before Labour Day.
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
Is this Elaine’s best book of the year? With zombies, post-apocalyptic themes and philosophical musings, it draws us into a world where the ordinary collides with the extraordinary.
I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore’s fourth novel is an ornate, interwoven meditation on mortality, where death is “kind of a spectrum.”
Girls They Write Songs About by Carlene Bauer
This witty, smart and thrumming novel explores the hunger and heartache of female friendship over two decades.
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
A wildly erotic, bitingly witty and outlandish novel of many appetites.
Fetal Position by Holly Melgard
This experimental poetry collection brings labour, in all its iterations, to the forefront.