Gordon Lockheed review Diary of a Lake, edited by John Harris and Vivien Lougheed

Brian Fawcett starts off to review George Bowering’s His Life, but it turns into something more like an appreciation of a very gifted poet’s character

John Harris makes a non-devotional analysis of Matt Cohen’s Typing

Brian Panhuyzen reviews last year’s GG & Giller winning novel

Stan Persky reviews a new book on post-war American fiction

John Harris discusses art, artiness and the overabundance of cliches in the novels of Jane Urquhart, and adds a couple of critical innovations of his own to conventional literary analysis

Stan Persky examines a new book that suggests that the radical edge of Enlightment philosophy has shaped modernity more than we recognize

Terry Rigelhof gives an contextual overview of Nino Ricci’s likely-to-be-controversial novel Testament

Stan Persky reviews film-maker Hanif Kureishi’s newly-minted book of essays