I Saw Three Ships
By Bill Richardson

“By June, Philip’s view of English Bay, what’s left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to see what’s out there. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to know what to do.” Eight…

I, Bartleby
By Meredith Quartermain

In these quirky, imaginative stories about writing and writers, Bartleby, scrivener (a.k.a. Quartermain), goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and other forebears. Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing reflections—the writer or the written? The thinker or the alphabet? The calligrapher or the pictograms hidden in her Chinese characters?

Impurity
By Larry Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman

An existential thriller that philosophically explores the purity of love. Russian-doll narrative, with self-referential loops and reflections on the literary medium.

In Search of New Babylon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
By Dominique Scali

In this atmospheric, post–Cormac McCarthy western novel, four disparate characters criss-cross the desert in pursuit of an impossible ideal. Along the way, these wily characters captivate and intrigue as they seek the American dream in a lawless town in the 1860s. Reverend Aaron is found lying unconscious on the dusty…

In the Shadow of the Vulture
By George Ryga

Set in the desert at the Mexico-U.S.A. border, this novel deals with the hope and despair of immigrant labourers.