André Alexis Days By Moonlight Coach House Books, 2019 Softcover, 218 pages With four novels published within the last five years, multi-award winning Canadian author André Alexis shows no signs of slowing down in this, his latter middle age. On the contrary, with increasing international recognition and increasingly reverential treatment by critics and reviewers, he seems to be rapidly ascending to the realm of the esteemed elders of Canadian literature. With the publication of Days by Moonlight earlier this spring, he remains on track to complete his ambitious quincunx series, begun with ..read more

Taylor, Timothy The Rule of Stephens Doubleday Canada, 2018 Softcover, 228 pages Anyone with even a toe in the modern world has felt it. Of this, I am certain. It’s an uncomfortable sensation, particularly acute for those of us who would like to believe in a rational world, and who, like me, require (or at least prefer) a foothold of logic from which to launch decision-making processes. Our current dilemma is, perhaps, best illustrated by a memory I have of watching very young kittens (inexperienced poopers) attempting to excavate a suitable defecation depot in a hill of soft sand — resulti ..read more