Hilary Turner Reviews New Novels by Suzannah Showler and Kim Moritsugu for EVENT 47/3

 •  February 4

Hilary Turner Reviews: Kim Moritsugu, The Showrunner, Dundurn, 2018 Suzannah Showler, most dramatic ever. the bachelor, ECW Press, 2018 The...

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Brett Josef Grubisic Reviews New Novels by Lynn Crosbie and Patrick DeWitt for EVENT 47/3

 •  February 4

Brett Josef Grubisic Reviews: Lynn Crosbie, Chicken, House of Anansi, 2018 Patrick DeWitt, French Exit, House of Anansi, 2018 In case Oxford’s...

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Three Poetry Reviews from Miranda Pearson for EVENT 47/3

 •  January 29

Miranda Pearson Reviews:   David Zieroth, the bridge from day to night, Harbour Publishing, 2018 Brenda Schmidt, Culverts Beneath the...

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Review: K.D. Miller’s All Saints & Marilyn Gear Pilling’s On Huron’s Shore

 •  May 12

This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/3. K.D. Miller, All Saints, Biblioasis, 2014 Marilyn Gear Pilling, On Huron’s Shore, Demeter...

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Review: Sean Arthur Joyce’s Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest & Vangie Bergum’s Downstream

 •  March 26

This non-fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/3. Sean Arthur Joyce, Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest: Canada’s Home Children in the...

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Review: Brett Josef Grubisic’s This Location of Unknown Possibilities & Ed MacDonald’s Atomic Storybook

 •  February 22

This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/2 Brett Josef Grubisic, This Location of Unknown Possibilities, Now or Never Publishing, 2014 Ed...

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Review: Paul Vasey’s The River & David Zieroth’s The November Optimist

 •  December 11

This non-fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/1 Paul Vasey, The River: A Memoir of Life in the Border Cities, Biblioasis, 2013 David...

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Review: Dede Crane’s Every Happy Family & Saleema Nawaz’s Bone and Bread

 •  November 30

This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/1 Dede Crane, Every Happy Family, Coteau Books, 2013 Saleema Nawaz, Bone and Bread, House of...

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Review: Fiction by Craig Davidson and Michael Winter

 •  November 13

This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/1. Craig Davidson, Cataract City, Doubleday, 2013 Michael Winter, Minister Without Portfolio,...

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Review: Fiction by Corinna Chong and Claire Wilkshire

 •  October 4

This review originally appeared in EVENT 42/3. Corinna Chong, Belinda’s Rings (NeWest, 2013) Claire Wilkshire, Maxine (Breakwater Books,...

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